The papers in this special section focus on new solutions and research initiatives in the area of media authentication and forensics. Media manipulation is now a pressing societal problem with broad implications. In the past, it required significant skill to create compelling manipulations because editing tools, such as Adobe Photoshop, required experienced users to alter images convincingly. Over the last several years, the rise of machine learning-based technologies has dramatically lowered the skill necessary to create compelling manipulations. For example, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can create photo-realistic faces with no skill by an end-user other than the ability to refresh a web page. Deepfake algorithms, such as autoencoders to swap faces in a video, can create manipulations much more easily than previous generation video tools. While these ML techniques have many positive uses, they have also been misused for darker purposes such as to perpetrate fraud, to create false personas, and to attack personal reputations. Clearly, these are pressing and important problems for which technical solutions must play a role.