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QAA Podcast

New Disinformation and Old Diseases feat. Anna Merlan (E328)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

News

4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Hundreds of people have been arrested in Los Angeles after days of protests, which are in response to aggressive immigration raids ordered by President Trump. When people took to social media to make sense of the events, they were confronted with fake, AI-generated videos of the protests and real photos that were labelled as out-of-context by AI. Thus breaking new ground in worthless, deceitful slop. Plus, we speak to Anna Merlan at Mother Jones about her recent reporting on the RFK Jr.-connected “MAHA Institute.” That organization’s head, Leland Lehrman, has pushed extremist ideas for decades, including endorsing the conspiracist fraudulent text "Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” RFK Jr. himself is evidently embracing a genuinely anti-vax agenda in his role as Health Secretary by firing and replacing the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). We've seen the future. And the future is an AI chatbot telling you to treat your latest typhus infection with apple cider vinegar. We've seen the future. And the future is an AI chatbot telling you to treat your latest typhus infection with apple cider vinegar. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://patreon.com/qaa /// Anna Merlan on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/annamerlan.bsky.social The Head of a New RFK-Backing Group Promoted 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/leland-lehrman-make-america-healthy-again-institute-antisemitism-september-11/ Flaming Hydra https://flaminghydra.com/ // Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. REFERENCES Bricks from Malaysia and New Jersey misrepresented amid LA unrest https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.49XW2T2 FACT FOCUS: A Craigslist ad is not proof of paid protesters in LA. It was posted as a prank https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-los-angeles-paid-protesters-prank-48792aa47dcc2d8eeb9547d79d530037 Fake videos and conspiracies fuel falsehoods about Los Angeles protests https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-videos-conspiracies-falsehoods-los-angeles-protests/ Los Angeles protests: How AI and chatbots are feeding fake news https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250610-meet-bob-the-ai-generated-national-guard-soldier-sparking-misinformation AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse https://www.wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt-ai-los-angeles-protest-disinformation/

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Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you have a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast,

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episode 328, new disinformation, and old diseases. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky,

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Julian Fields, and Travis View. I've seen the future, and the future is an AI chatbot

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telling me to treat my latest typhus

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infection with apple cider vinegar and info war supplements.

0:59.6

Hell yeah. Today we're going to be talking about the viral lies that are spreading about

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the recent and ongoing protests against the ice rays in Los Angeles and how AI is making it

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worse because it generates realistic but fake videos

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and claims that real images are fakes.

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There's no us in AI.

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Just I.

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What's that?

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No, please.

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Tell me what?

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Well, it's sort of like a kind of like a scared sound.

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Oh, okay.

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