Pentagon Developing Deepfakes to Deceive the Public

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"In 2019, Rubio and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote 11 American internet companies urging them to draft policies to detect and remove deepfake videos. “If the public can no longer trust recorded events or images,” read the letter, “it will have a corrosive impact on our democracy.”"

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/06/pentagon-socom-deepfake-propaganda/?_ga=2.78137236.1461771522.1678568423-44174127.1642372517

 

"United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is “gearing up to conduct internet propaganda and deception campaigns online using deepfake videos,” according to contracts with the federal government reviewed by The Intercept.

In what many would attribute to the likely behavior of rogue regimes targeting the United States, the activities that SOCOM is carrying on overseas include “hacking internet-connected devices to eavesdrop in order to assess foreign populations’ susceptibility to propaganda,” the Intercept article reports.

The information revealed in the report is taken from a procurement document published by the Department of Defense, a sort of wish list of technological tools the Pentagon is looking to secretly deploy throughout the world.

Of particular interest on the list is a section called “Advanced technologies for use in Military Information Support Operations (MISO),” interpreted by the The Intercept as “a Pentagon euphemism for its global propaganda and deception efforts.” Here’s how The Intercept described the contents of that disturbing part of the procurement request:"

https://thenewamerican.com/pentagon-developing-deepfakes-to-deceive-the-public/

 

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

"Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.

Behind the scenes, however, the social networking giant provided direct approval and internal protection to the U.S. military’s network of social media accounts and online personas, whitelisting a batch of accounts at the request of the government."

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/

https://theintercept.com/2021/10/12/facebook-secret-blacklist-dangerous/

[El Spicoli]

They have been on the propaganda business for a long time now.

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1 minute ago, El Spicoli said:

They have been on the propaganda business for a long time now.

Yes, mostly overseas but now it creeping closer to home.