Case Study: CBC/Radio-Canada achieves video authenticity and provenance tracking with AWS Elemental Content Credentials on AWS

CBC/Radio-Canada validates fMP4 video authenticity with AWS Elemental in 15 minutes

CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada's national public broadcaster, faced the challenge of maintaining public trust in its video content amidst the rising threat of AI-created deepfakes and eroding media confidence. To demonstrate the authenticity of its videos, the customer turned to AWS Elemental and the AWS Prototyping team for a solution that could apply Content Credentials to its fragmented MP4 (fMP4) video files, which is the industry standard format it uses.

The AWS solution implemented a significant upgrade to its existing Content Credentials guidance, creating a new system capable of handling fMP4 files. It features an AWS Amplify frontend for asset management and a backend using both AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate for flexible, serverless compute processing. This allows CBC/Radio-Canada to efficiently sign and validate its video content, providing a critical tool to help audiences verify the provenance and authenticity of the content they consume and upholding its mandate to accurately inform Canadians.

CBC/Radio-Canada

Sebastien Testeau

Media Technology Architect, CBC/Radio-Canada