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To: edzo4

They really are pushing this DEEP FAKE crap aren’t they

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/political-world-braces-next-generation-fake-news-n871266

Political world braces for the next generation of fake news
It’s easier than ever to make high-quality manipulations to audio and video and that has experts worried.

The issue was thrust into the national spotlight last month when Buzzfeed partnered with the filmmaker Jordan Peele to create a video of former President Barack Obama appearing to deliver a public service announcement about the potential impact of manipulated media. Only it wasn’t Obama.

Instead it was Peele’s impersonation of Obama, synced well enough with the former president’s lips to keep viewers open to the possibility it could be authentic until the message itself became a clear parody.


449 posted on 05/05/2018 1:24:59 PM PDT by edzo4
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To: edzo4

https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/05/03/high-court-balance-at-stake-as-kennedy-retirement-talk-heats-up

High Court Balance at Stake as Kennedy Retirement Talk Heats Up
After 30 years of pivotal decisions on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy is about to make his biggest one yet.

For the second straight year, Kennedy, 81, is the focus of retirement speculation as the court approaches the late-June end of its term. A retirement by the court’s swing justice would give President Donald Trump his second Supreme Court vacancy to fill before Republicans’ Senate majority goes on the November election ballot. It also would drop a political bomb into what is already one of the country’s most divisive eras since the Civil War.


451 posted on 05/05/2018 1:25:57 PM PDT by edzo4
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To: edzo4
...until the message itself became a clear parody.

Then it wasn't fake, now was it?

(not to you, to the author)

Bagster

576 posted on 05/05/2018 4:42:13 PM PDT by bagster ("She had brown sugar, all over her booga wooga." Bob Marley)
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