History in the Age of Disinformation

History was always a weapon in modern politics. Those who wanted to
shape the future knew that it was important to take control over
the interpretation of the past. Manipulating visual material
emotionally telling the story of historic moments is an approach
that is old as the tradition of writing history itself. But does
the new quantity and quality of deep faked history in the world
wide web lead us into times where fact and fiction cannot be
separated from each other anymore, when telling stories of our
past? For our March episode we met Jason Steinhauer, founder of the
History Communication Institute, to discuss the new quality of
manipulating historical narratives in times of deep fake
technology.