Episode 78: Cheapfakes on the Campaign Trail '20 feat Parker Molloy

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Forget deepfakes. All we can afford in this economy? Freeware video apps and enterprise edition windows vista. Welcome to the era of cheapfakes. Parker Molloy, editor at large for Media Matters joins us to discuss a recent Buttigieg campaign video, a manipulated sample of a Biden rant, and the primaries in the context of conspiracy theorizing. ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Follow Parker Molloy: http://twitter.com/parkermolloy Merch: http://merch.qanonanonymous.com Music by Nick Sena (www.nicksenamusic.com) /// Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/07/psychiatrist-struck-off-for-posting-bizarre-qanon-conspiracy-theories https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/1879340/dod-announces-250m-to-ukraine/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-14-mn-420-story.html https://datasociety.net/output/deepfakes-and-cheap-fakes/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/23/faked-pelosi-videos-slowed-make-her-appear-drunk-spread-across-social-media/ https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/new-approach-to-synthetic-and-manipulated-media.html https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/viral-and-misleading-biden-clip-shows-dangers-democratizing-disinformation

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0:00.0	What's up QAA listeners?
0:05.3	The fun games have begun.
0:08.3	I found a way to connect to the internet.
0:11.3	I'm sorry boy.
0:13.5	Welcome listener to the 78th chapter of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Cheap Fakes
0:20.2	episode.
0:21.2	As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View.
0:25.3	This week we are dealing with cheap fakes, or videos edited deceptively without the
0:30.5	use of machine learning, artificial intelligence, or other advanced techniques.
0:35.2	It turns out we don't need technology to effectively lie and manipulate the public.
0:39.6	You can do it from Windows Movie Maker, despite your arthritis.
0:43.4	Travis is going to walk us through the concept and show us some recent examples of cheap
0:46.9	fakes that have made splashes.
0:48.3	We'll then be joined by Parker Maloy, editor at large for Media Matters, who's been
0:51.8	covering cheap fakes for a little while now.
0:54.0	We'll help us understand what it all means.
0:58.8	Before all that, I guess I just wanted to acknowledge that last night was the live show and
1:02.0	it was incredible.
1:03.2	We had such a great time.
1:04.7	I'm thinking to everybody for coming out.
1:06.7	Yeah, it was a blast.
1:07.9	All of our listeners, I first would say fans, and then I was like, no, it's not that.
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