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Towards Token-Level Text Anomaly Detection
Despite significant progress in text anomaly detection for web applications such as spam filtering and fake news detection, existing methods are fundamentally limited to document-level analysis, unable to identify which specific parts of a text are anomalous. We introduce token-level anomaly detection, a novel paradigm that enables fine-grained localization of anomalies within text. We formally define text anomalies at both document and token-levels, and propose a unified detection framework ...
Revealing the Truth with ConLLM for Detecting Multi-Modal Deepfakes
The rapid rise of deepfake technology poses a severe threat to social and political stability by enabling hyper-realistic synthetic media capable of manipulating public perception. However, existing detection methods struggle with two core limitations: (1) modality fragmentation, which leads to poor generalization across diverse and adversarial deepfake modalities; and (2) shallow inter-modal reasoning, resulting in limited detection of fine-grained semantic inconsistencies. To address these,...
Trump leaders say Minnesota officials withhold detained immigrants from ICE. Is that true?
Fact-check: Do Minneapolis and MN cooperate with ICE?
Agentic AI Microservice Framework for Deepfake and Document Fraud Detection in KYC Pipelines
The rapid proliferation of synthetic media, presentation attacks, and document forgeries has created significant vulnerabilities in Know Your Customer (KYC) workflows across financial services, telecommunications, and digital-identity ecosystems. Traditional monolithic KYC systems lack the scalability and agility required to counter adaptive fraud. This paper proposes an Agentic AI Microservice Framework that integrates modular vision models, liveness assessment, deepfake detection, OCR-based...
Audio Deepfake Detection at the First Greeting: "Hi!"
This paper focuses on audio deepfake detection under real-world communication degradations, with an emphasis on ultra-short inputs (0.5-2.0s), targeting the capability to detect synthetic speech at a conversation opening, e.g., when a scammer says "Hi." We propose Short-MGAA (S-MGAA), a novel lightweight extension of Multi-Granularity Adaptive Time-Frequency Attention, designed to enhance discriminative representation learning for short, degraded inputs subjected to communication processing a...
MARE: Multimodal Alignment and Reinforcement for Explainable Deepfake Detection via Vision-Language Models
Deepfake detection is a widely researched topic that is crucial for combating the spread of malicious content, with existing methods mainly modeling the problem as classification or spatial localization. The rapid advancements in generative models impose new demands on Deepfake detection. In this paper, we propose multimodal alignment and reinforcement for explainable Deepfake detection via vision-language models, termed MARE, which aims to enhance the accuracy and reliability of Vision-Langu...
Audio Deepfake Detection in the Age of Advanced Text-to-Speech models
Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have substantially increased the realism of synthetic speech, raising new challenges for audio deepfake detection. This work presents a comparative evaluation of three state-of-the-art TTS models--Dia2, Maya1, and MeloTTS--representing streaming, LLM-based, and non-autoregressive architectures. A corpus of 12,000 synthetic audio samples was generated using the Daily-Dialog dataset and evaluated against four detection frameworks, including semant...
Five Shots in Five Minutes: Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis
This investigation is part of a collaboration between Bellingcat and Evident Media. You can watch Evident’s video here. The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 sparked nationwide protests, with often violent clashes breaking out between protesters and federal agents. Some of […] The post Five Shots in Five Minutes: Analysing One Federal Agent’s Use of Less-Lethal Launcher in Minneapolis appeared first on...
Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s WhatsApp channel here On January 24, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, was shot and killed by federal agents on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The shooting comes just over two weeks after Renee […] The post Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting appeared first on bellingcat .
Identifying ‘Less-Lethal’ Weapons Used By DHS Agents in US Immigration Raids and Protests
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s WhatsApp channel here. Federal agents have frequently used so-called “less-lethal” weapons against protesters, including impact projectiles, tear gas and pepper spray, since the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration raids began last year. The use of less-lethal weapons (LLWs) has been controversial. While designed to incapacitate or […] The post Identifying ‘Less-Lethal’ Weapons Used By DHS Agents in US Immigration Ra...
Surprise! Mamdani Is Governing Like a Socialist
Mamdani promised a rent freeze for starters and much more government intervention into private housing markets, and his first step was to hire Cea Weaver as his director of the Office to Protect Tenants, who wrote that home ownership was “racist” and a “weapon of white supremacy” as his front-line official in housing.
NATO Creating Its Own Bank To Finance War Against Russia, Bypass Nation State Constraints
A NATO bank could feed Ukraine's Dictator Vladimir Zelensky cash without needing him to pander. In 2023 he went on Fox News and begged Western leaders to send “all their money” to him.
WATCH: ATV Rider Smuggles Illegals Into Texas Neighborhood
Illegals pile onto 4-wheeler after rafting across Rio Grande
EU democracy now has fewer boundaries than the average hooker
Calls to strip a former Austrian foreign minister of her citizenship set an abysmally low bar for rule of law Read Full Article at RT.com
US probing claims WhatsApp chats aren’t private – Bloomberg
US authorities are investigating claims that Meta employees could access encrypted WhatsApp messages, Bloomberg reports Read Full Article at RT.com
India could be mediator in Israel-Palestine conflict – FM
The Palestinian Authority ‘s top diplomat weighed on New Delhi’s potential role in achieving a two‑state solution Read Full Article at RT.com
Old globalization model is over – Putin aide
The old model of globalization has ended with Western sanctions and trade barriers in place, Kremlin aide Maksim Oreshkin has said Read Full Article at RT.com
EU to raid its own emergency fund for military spending
EU countries could borrow from a crisis fund to finance increased military spending Read Full Article at RT.com