Deepfakes, Lies, and How to Fight Disinformation

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams

Crooked Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Disinformation touches all of us, and more often than we think. Stacey is joined by Esosa Osa, founder of Onyx Impact, to talk about how acute the issue is and how to stop bad information from spreading—online and even in your family’s group chat.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Assembly required with Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media.
0:12.1	I'm your host Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media. I'm your host, Stacey Abrams. You might have
0:15.3	come across a lot of content related to the 2024 presidential election lately.
0:21.1	In this election, we each face a question. What kind of country do we want to live in?
0:27.0	When President Joe Biden shared that he would not seek re-election,
0:32.0	Vice President Kamala Harris secured a path to become the Democratic
0:35.2	Party's nominee. Days before, Senator J.D. Vance got the Republican nod to become
0:41.1	the GOP tickets tickets number two.
0:44.0	Almost immediately, in both instances,
0:46.7	timelines were flooded with memes and Tik-Tocs.
0:49.9	You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
1:02.0	I'm just living that life.
1:04.0	What is surprising to no one
1:07.0	is that not all of the information popping up on our
1:10.0	FYPs or in our feeds has been true or real or accurate. And while the election
1:16.4	tumult has certainly captured our attention, this phenomenon is not new.
1:20.6	In 2019, then President Trump shared a video of then House Speaker
1:26.3	Nancy Pelosi that was edited to make her appear to stammer during a news conference.
1:31.1	Here is the real video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
1:35.1	And then he had a press conference in the Rose Garden with all this sort of visuals.
1:41.3	Now the doctor video in which she appears to be impaired.
1:45.0	And then he had a press conference in the Rose Garden with all this short sort of
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