From Deep Fakes to Impersonation Networks, Inside China’s Aggressive Campaigns to Manipulate You: Sarah Cook

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deep fakes to artificial amplification networks, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more creative about how they manipulate Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online.

Independent China researcher Sarah Cook has been studying the Chinese regime’s online campaigns for years. She says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media and the global information space.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	When we look at these disinformation campaigns, they're doing things to just mess things up in a democracy,
0:06.0	pretending to be voters, and amplifying existing polarization, to actively sow confusion and discord in foreign democracy.
0:15.0	From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deepfakes, the Chinese regime is becoming
0:20.8	more creative about how they manipulate Americans,
0:24.3	Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online.
0:27.4	A deep fake video comes out making it seem like he's doing illicit drugs that was
0:31.2	amplified by a variety of this network of fake accounts that illicit has been studying the Chinese regime's online campaigns for years.
0:44.0	She says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media
0:49.0	and the global information space.
0:51.0	All it takes is one real journalist to like be convinced or duped or whatever you want to say.
0:55.6	It starts to get into the ordinary media ecosystem.
0:58.3	This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kelling.
1:00.8	Sarah Cook, such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders.
1:06.7	It's nice to be here, yeah.
1:08.5	Sarah, you're my go-to person for how the Chinese Communist Party uses its influence, especially in media, in the whole sphere of media.
1:18.0	And something I've been thinking a lot about lately is the advent of generative AI AI I was just playing with the new
1:25.0	Grock features that's absolutely astonishing and this is something that's been
1:29.5	used in by the Chinese regime more recently in a number of quite notable cases, these deep fakes. So why don't you jump in and just tell me about that?
1:38.0	So the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to influence the media, around the world for many many years.
1:46.0	I think what we've seen is over the last decade it's intensified and it's become more sophisticated and more coercive. more the number one target for the Chinese Communist Party and they had elections in January
2:04.6	and there's a whole slew of examples but just to give you know just to give one example
2:09.5	one deep fig they actually that was published and disseminated by these networks of
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