Disinformation Nation

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan and NYU’s Paul Barrett join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on this episode of "Skullduggery." Soufan weighs in on the the recent IG report on James Comey, the pulling out of troops from Afghanistan, and the US negotiations with the Taliban. Barrett then dissects his recent eye-opening report on disinformation being spread via "deep fake" videos and other tactics on social media and what we can do to combat it.

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0:00.0	We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic for our country.
0:11.0	That's a clip from a video of how Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking at a Washington think tank
0:15.2	event in May.
0:16.2	It's a video that went viral on social media, attracting more than a million views.
0:21.5	Only that's not what Pelosi actually sounded like.
0:24.6	The tape of Pelosi speaking was deliberately slowed down to make her sound like she was
0:29.5	sluggish and slurring her words, maybe drunk.
0:32.5	It was the latest example of the danger of fake videos, a new arsenal in the global information
0:38.5	wars.
0:39.5	A just released report from NYU University warns that both foreign and domestic actors
0:44.7	are likely gearing up for next year's presidential race by developing increasingly deceptive
0:50.1	ways to distort the news, manipulate audio and video feeds, and poison the minds of American
0:56.5	voters.
0:57.5	It would be a replay of sorts of what the Russians did in 2016, only more sophisticated
1:03.3	and potentially a lot more effective.
1:06.0	Our social media company is doing enough to combat the threat and is the US government
1:10.1	paying enough attention?
1:11.3	We'll talk to the author of the NYU report and we'll talk to one of the FBI's most celebrated
1:16.9	former agents, Ali Sifan, about the recent Justice Department Inspector General report
1:22.0	on former FBI director James Comey and the impending Afghan peace deal all on this episode
1:28.9	of Skull Duggery.
1:30.7	Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of Sikrup, well I'm
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