Latino GOP Voters Embrace Culture War & New AI Makes Disinfo Easy
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🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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And the tools to create artificial video, audio, and text have become far more powerful and much easier to use in the last few years. The technology is poised to reshape much of modern life — including, perhaps, the prevalence of disinformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Julie in Vienna, Virginia. I've just released three pounds of honeybees into their |
| 0:05.6 | new hive and I'm having a great time watching them settle into their new home. This podcast was |
| 0:10.6 | recorded at... 12.06 pm Eastern time on Friday, March 24th of 2023. So things may have changed by |
| 0:18.0 | the time you hear this, but I will still be busy as, uh, well, you know. I will say we're not far |
| 0:26.7 | from Virginia, but just hearing that ambience sound out there, it sounded so much warmer where she was |
| 0:32.2 | than this trusly rain we have here. What a great thing right as we're coming into allergy season, |
| 0:37.2 | people don't realize, but local honey can help your allergies. I did know that. Yeah. Well, there you go, |
| 0:42.9 | diminicle with the useful news you can use. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Asma Khalid, |
| 0:48.3 | I cover the White House. I'm Clyde Gneselec, I cover Congress. And I'm Dominican Montenegro, |
| 0:52.6 | Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. And today on the show, we're going to begin with some |
| 0:56.4 | reporting from Florida and the state's Republican governor who has become a leading culture warrior |
| 1:01.7 | for the GOP. This week, there was news that Ron DeSantis' administration is planning to forbid any |
| 1:07.5 | classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, all the way up through senior year |
| 1:12.4 | of high school. This would expand upon the controversial law the governor signed last year that |
| 1:17.2 | banned such instruction from kindergarten through third grade. DeSantis is expected to run for president, |
| 1:23.1 | and Claudia, you have just returned from a reporting trip to Florida. So before we dive into |
| 1:28.5 | specific questions, I'm just very curious what you heard from voters about him. Yes, it's really |
| 1:33.8 | interesting. I spoke to a lot of Latino conservative voters in South Florida, in Miami-Dade County, |
| 1:40.1 | and they have a lot of excitement, a lot of energy for governor DeSantis. In particular, they're excited |
| 1:47.8 | about his approach to a lot of these culture wars. They really related to a lot of that. It was |
| 1:54.0 | interesting. Some would say that they were former supporters of ex-president Trump, but now they're |
| 2:00.5 | moving on to the Florida governor because they see Trump as weekend, whether it's by Democrats or |
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