Misinformation Apocalypse (with Hany Farid)

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Misinformation Apocalypse,” Preet answers listener questions about: Grand jury rules, and speculation that a grand jury declined to indict former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe The D.C. Court of Appeals’ ruling preventing the House Judiciary Committee from enforcing its subpoena for Don McGahn’s testimony Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times Company Super Tuesday predictions and punditry The guest is Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert and a professor at University of California, Berkeley. Farid is at the forefront of the race to develop technology that can detect visual, audio, and video manipulation. With the recent rise of AI-based fakes, also known as “deepfakes,” Farid is part of a small team of analysts creating new techniques to assist with the identification of fake content. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. To listen to Stay Tuned bonus content, become a member of CAFE Insider. Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis of politically charged legal news, and updates from Preet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ravi Agrual, host of Foreign Policy Live.
0:04.0	Every week I sit down with world leaders and policy experts on the issues that matter most to you.
0:10.0	People like US Climate Envoy John Kerry, economist Larry Summers, and Ukraine's deputy foreign minister
0:16.3	emanates up a rover.
0:18.0	Whether it's the US-China relationship, the war in Ukraine, or the Global South's growing clout.
0:24.0	Foreign Policy Live is your weekly fix for smart thinking about the world.
0:29.0	Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.8	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfluencer of attempting
0:40.2	to kidnap her children.
0:42.0	The Karen phenomenon were white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually
0:46.9	fixates on the accuser, the so-called Karen.
0:49.8	But for this series, we focus on the innocent couple at the heart of this story.
0:53.8	I just want the public to know what she did was wrong.
0:58.1	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen, available now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:04.0	From Cafe, welcome to stay tuned.
1:07.0	I'm Preet Barara.
1:09.0	It's fake news is becoming a mantra,
1:12.0	and that in some ways is the real danger here that that we
1:15.8	are getting into where we simply are going to struggle to believe what we see
1:19.6	here and read online and I don't know how you have a democracy in that situation.
1:24.0	That's Hani Ferrede.
1:28.0	He's a professor at the University of California Berkeley and an expert in digital forensics.
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