'We Don't Hate Journalists Enough': The Story of an F-ed Up Deepfake
Question Everything
Brian Reed
4.6 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
When journalist Julia Mengolini criticized her country’s president, Javier Milei, she didn’t expect to be targeted with one of the more disturbing uses of AI: a pornographic deepfake video designed to humiliate her. What began as trolling by online extremists spiraled into a government-amplified smear campaign, spurred on by senior officials and the president himself.
Juila tells reporter/producer Zach St. Louis what happened to her and what she’s doing to fight back against President Milei – an ally of Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s.
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Guests:
Julia Mengolini — Journalist, radio host, and co-founder of Futurock
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all. I've been hearing from a lot of you on social and my DMs, on substack, |
| 0:03.8 | of how you're enjoying the show, appreciating it, which I really appreciate. |
| 0:07.3 | Just a friendly reminder here to please rate and review, question everything, highly, I hope, |
| 0:12.4 | wherever you're listening to podcasts and share it with a friend. |
| 0:15.7 | Today on the show, a journalist gets dragged into the nightmarish side of the internet. |
| 0:20.7 | The dark new world of AI deep fake videos. |
| 0:28.3 | Hi, I'm Zach St. Louis, a producer and reporter on Question Everything. |
| 0:36.7 | Maybe three months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok, and I came across a video. |
| 0:41.5 | It was an equally adorable and captivating video. |
| 0:44.8 | It looked like security cam footage of someone's backyard, with a trampoline in it. |
| 0:49.8 | And then, some bunnies come along. |
| 0:53.9 | They're on the edge of the trampoline. |
| 0:55.0 | Then walking out in the middle, you can see where this is going. |
| 0:59.0 | There's like six or eight of them. |
| 1:01.0 | One starts jumping. |
| 1:03.0 | They all start bouncing around. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a video of a trampoline rabbit party. |
| 1:09.0 | I loved it. I was like, it's hilarious that these bunnies of a trampoline rabbit party. I loved it. |
| 1:13.9 | I was like, it's hilarious that these bunnies love this trampoline. |
| 1:16.9 | I let it play on a loop like five times. |
| 1:20.6 | Maybe you've seen this video. |
| 1:22.3 | If not, please Google it. |
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