Posted on 01/20/2025 3:48:04 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
CNN's Jake Tapper warned on Monday that the country was about to enter an "era of deepfakes and all sorts of disinformation" under President Trump, while discussing the Big Tech presence at his inauguration.
"We‘re about to enter an era of deepfakes, and all sorts of misinformation and the degree to which those five gentlemen play a role or do not play a role, will be pivotal in terms of where the American people are four years from now, in terms of understanding what is true and what is false," Tapper said before Trump took the oath of office.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were among the tech giants attending the inauguration.
Tapper said those five people "control so much of the information that we receive, so much is in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring, or refusing to monitor what is real, what is not real."
CNN's Anderson Cooper extended Tapper's warning to the entire world.
"Not just talking about we, the United States, you're talking about the world. All the human beings on the planet, they control access to information. They're the gatekeepers in many ways to information for the entire planet," he said.
CNN's Van Jones noted the historical nature of the photos picturing the five tech executives, and pointed out that most of them supported the Democratic Party not long ago.
"Look, that picture is going to be historic. I call it the revenge of the nerds. Don‘t forget, all four of those gentlemen, four years ago, were supporting the Democratic Party," he said.
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and CNN is about $5 million light these days because of the misinformation they pushed...
Tapper will soon be reduced to an audience of only himself.
How’s Monica these days, Jake?
You guys keep in touch?
Deep fakes???
Ohhh, yeah… like when the right wing extremists were ‘faking’ Biden videos to show him as an empty shell, dementia patient who barely knew where he was??
THOSE “deep fakes”???
They’ve already forgotten that the world has realized their lying accusations a LONG time ago..
Tapper gave his deposition in a pre-recorded video that was presented to jurors on Tuesday in the trial brought by U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, who has accused CNN of defaming him in a report that first aired on "The Lead with Jake Tapper" in Nov. 2021.
"Mr. Tapper, can you give an overview of viewership numbers for your show ‘The Lead?'" Young's attorney is heard off-camera asking in the recorded November 2024 exchange.
"I cannot," Tapper responded.
"You have no idea how many people watch ‘The Lead’ on an average basis?" the attorney followed.
"I do not pay attention to ratings," Tapper replied.
After attorney Vel Freedman asked Tapper to define what he meant by "ratings," Tapper responded by explaining how Nielsen ratings metrics are how shows, networks and advertisers "determine how many people are watching the show at any given moment."
"And I do not pay attention to the Nielsen ratings. So, yeah," Tapper added.
Fox News Digital has found more than a dozen examples of social media posts showing Tapper either touting his show's ratings or highlighting others, contradicting and undermining his own sworn testimony.
Hey Jake
It is what your garbage fake news agency has been doing ya fake piece of crap
Tree/Forest/Hear?
From 2 to one?
Kr@pper would know ALL about Deep Fakery.
I think more like 20mil light Plus Lawyer fees
The era of misinformation was lead by Dr. Fauci, now that he is gone we are beginning the era of truth, freedom, and free speech (which is really just an application of freedom). The Fauci misinformation era is over, GOLDEN AGE starts NOW.
“ Tapper said those five people “control so much of the information that we receive, so much is in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring, or refusing to monitor what is real, what is not real.”
He’s describing himself and his network and the media in general.
Gaslighting, look a squirrel, big lie, whatever you call it, he’s doing it.
Jake the Deep Fake.
Like CNN has been doing?
The taxpayer subsidies are going to stop flowing any time now. He might be out of a job...
Another useful idiot that was fine when the lies if the last four years was pushed.
Cope harder Jake. That narrative has failed your side badly because you’re talking about yourselves, not Trump, when you speak of who is pushing disinformation and deep fakes.
status quo then, eh?
I’ll say! For a while there I mistook Tapper for a journalist.
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