digital forensics

noun

The analysis of digital media to detect forgery or manipulation.

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Meanings

noundigital forensics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableforensicsThe analysis of digital media to detect forgery or manipulation.

    For more than two decades, Farid, 60, had been the world’s leading expert in the field of digital forensics, but in the last six months he’d stopped trusting his own eyes.

    2026 June 14, Eli Saslow, Erin Schaff, “The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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MLA

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Chicago

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