Mon, 14 Sep 2009

Fake video dramatically alters eyewitness accounts

I believe it. This reminds me of the tale of a math test given, where students had to show their work, but were given calculators to "double check" themselves. Of course, they were given rigged machines, designed to subtly return wrong answers.

The students trusted the calculators more than their own work by an astonishing margin.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that fake video evidence can dramatically alter people's perceptions of events, even convincing them to testify as an eyewitness to an event that never happened.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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