Countrys experiencing. Tanked. I saw the check i think so. I know i cashed. Out from the rest of the. Hello im richard yes but in your at the listening post here are some of the media stories that were covering this week if you cant beat them or suppress them block them in more and more countries internet blackouts have become a fact of life Syrias Bashar Al Assad and the interview and italian broadcaster did not want its audience to see putting a face on fake news thats all and less why should you believe me deep fakes like this photo version of Boris Johnson are next level misinformation and they want to feature dream on their. Ukrainian boy the trunk impeachment story sect news. For those of you watching this Program Online imagine what an internet blackout would mean to you shut out of messaging sites forced off social media deprived of news information and the means to contact loved ones and magine your d kashmiri and the Indian Government has left you in the dark for 4 months now or you are iranian and youve just experienced your most serious internet shutdown ever both of those shutdowns were imposed by governments which said they were trying to prevent security threats their critics human rights workers among them say this is about silencing dissent the. Liberally severing connections between people of form of collective punishment in fact blackouts are now a standard feature in the authoritarian internet playbook and increasingly common response by governments that fear their grip on power is slipping flip a switch or 2 and its lights out for freedom of information and freedom of expression our starting point this week is the indian administered blacked out region of kashmir. 2 cities 2 countries 2 population smart parts of which are politically restless and 2 governments with the means to silence the srinagar kashmir offline for 4 months now and counting after the Modi Government in new delhi altered the constitution to revoke the regions autonomy and the iranian capital tehran where net users were recently forced offline in the longest shut down ever after economic protesters had taken to the streets the authorities in delhi and tehran both had stories to control and used blackouts to do it keeping their citizens in the dark stopping them from speaking to the outside world busier 2 very extended internet shutdowns that happen around political crisis in the country in the case of iran of course this was around economic protests that really snowballed into large scale antigovernment protests and in mere there have been protests and riots that have been happening in that sort of disputed territory for a while which mark these 2 shutdowns was just how long that they have lasted in sort of the humanitarian and Economic Cost that they have rotted on the on the population these are not shutdowns are also different from each other iran didnt block the internet entirely but it did so for a relatively short period of time and was responsive to International Pressure whereas in kashmir were seeing an ongoing internet shutdown that is quite unique because of the fact that the vast majority of indian and users access the internet through mobile technology is between january and july of 2019 or 120 internet shutdowns a large chunk of which occurred in india. Srinagar is the unofficial internet shutdown. Capital of the world according to a delhi based nonprofit the Software Freedom law center this year alone no render modis government has cut off mobile and Internet Services there 55. 00 times this latest blackout has lasted so long kashmiris have become unintended casualties of whatsapp systems and any account that has been inactive for 120 days is automatically deactivated by the company and it doesnt stop there. And during this. Move. I mean by that measure the invoking the or so then the end of the phone back to the phone call the basis of those trying to access that nation they call on the. 7 us is trying to stop a minute. When trying access just as like as an on line with an invite when on line and they are back with these if they can imagine. Just. Iran has shut down Internet Access far less often than india has but when it does the blackouts are comprehensive during protests in 2017 and 18 it blocked mobile networks and access to messaging and the un called the blackouts a serious violation of fundamental rights when hikes and petrol prices led to demonstrations last month and a Security Response in which more than 130. 00 protestors have been killed iranians would have known what was coming within 24 hours connectivity levels which are usually at around 65 percent in iran fell to just 5 percent that is how long it took the authorities to issue their orders to the various. Internet Service Providers it wasnt a kill switch. Happen immediately this is basically coronation across all of the Internet Service provider in iran and getting them to turn them off i was actually privy to leaked documents and you could see how the government had ordered the internet Service Providers to go through methodological plan of actually bringing the country back online to the International Internet and they were telling them who to connect online and these were you know the start ups Public Institutions the Research Institutes and then on to you know the broader public. Forcing our u. S. P. S. To take orders is one way to control the internet but its complicated building your own National Interest that by limiting the number of information pipelines into and out of the country is another china and north korea both have National Internets easily policed and iran is developing a model along the same internets allow our government to unilaterally cut off its citizens from content the rest of the world see internet also spawn all kinds of mirror platforms modeled on the likes of facebook you tube and whatsapp domestic versions of software or that those governments can control far more easily than the ones based in Silicon Valley but china offers to the world is right now a model of the internet where it can be more. In fact chinese officials are inviting experts from Different Countries through china in order to better understand chinas model of having a National Internet or starting to seize in places like russia rather than sort of using the universe so internet infrastructure theyre creating their own infrastructure. With the different sets of protocols and sort of. In order to in some ways. The Global Internet when we see the internet sort of being broken up into many different internets i think that the result for democracy and freedom is a good idea for the National Information network was conceived all the way back as early as 2005 in iran one of the nicknames that i got was how long that and this was you know to describe how the immoral content that can be found on you know a free and open internet would naturally be censored and there were like a moral islamic version of the internet and its really been intensified however under the Rouhani Administration weve also seen alternatives to platforms like you tube which are censored so there are new version of you tube. And its actually quite popular. On the internet shutdowns the position of the uns office for human rights is clear they are a breach of basic human rights freedom of expression freedom of information that kashmir is a form of collective punishment without even a pretext for precipitating event that iranians have been deprived not only of a fundamental freedom but also a basic access to essential services and one thing that governments might want to ask themselves before they go down this path to internet shutdowns even war. This is you know evidence for the intervention down that actually effects including one dressed all by him and in fact more bizarre doesnt have that many years in him in these. This going to be seen and a lot of that. Information thats being spread. Base away from the. Cause more that isnt going to effectuate any. I think in the stands given the ways in which the internet isnt allies for everything from banking and Economic Services to personal communications and everything in between we do have to consider access to the internet as a human right we should not allow governments like iran to restrict access for its citizens people to be able to communicate the need to be able to Access Services and so we are shutting down the entire internet should absolutely be open and. Were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our reproducers john a joe weve seen president s and Prime Ministers complain about interviews before it might be the questions asked or the way the interview has been edited but serious Bashar Al Assad is accusing a broadcaster of censorship isnt it supposed to be the other way around yes and this is a bit of a strange one Richard Assad is talking about rai which is italys Public Broadcasting Network now on november 26th he gave an interview to Monica Maggio ne who is the c. E. O. Of rye com which is a company to distribute content interview was shed jeweled to be broadcast a week later on ryan news 24 and on syrian state t. V. Simle taney asli but on the day of the broadcast right i asked for a delay because as it turns out none of rice channels had commissioned the interview so how did your only and assad end up in the same room had she gone rogue and who came up with this idea for the simultaneous broadcasting of this interview well thats where the story gets a little confusing only used to be right news 24 is editor but no longer has a journalistic role in the network shes in distribution she refuses to answer any questions about the affair including what right actually signed off on the interview but the italian media have reported that this may have come down to editorial disagreements or ethical once a syrian state t. V. Which has a much better idea of who it takes its orders from but the piece out its a softball interview nothing challenging no particularly incisive questions and then go on a very personal note mr president do you feel like a survivor. If you want to talk about national war like this where every nearly every pretty has been harmed by terrorism or external. Bombardment or anything like this you can talk about the theory of survivors. But again i think this is human nature reserve open and you yourself are part of those unions i cannot be assad has issued a statement calling this another example of western attempts to hide the truth on the situation in syria ok thanks to famous people will say just about anything these days who knew that Kim Carr Dasha has admitted to manipulating public data for money i feel really blessed because i genuinely love the process of manipulating people for money or that Mark Zuckerberg has copped to abusing the private information of facebook users. Imagine this for a 2nd one man with total control of billions of people stolen their. Secrets their lives their futures convinced dont be those are deep fakes videos produced through the use of Artificial Intelligence melding images and sound appearing so real its difficult to tell that theyre fake the vast majority of deep fakes currently online focus on celebrities lots of fake porn putting one head on someone elses body because thats where the money is but the bigger concern is this deep fakes could be used to spread misinformation mess with politics and manipulate electorates by fooling journalists and voters alike seeing used to be believing but the day is coming where the veracity of video could be completely up for debate and if you think that facebook and google et al struggle to deal with fake news now does anyone really believe theyre equipped or even inclined to handle deep fix listening posts terek nuffin now on a future where we wont be able to trust our own eyes. December 28th seen on president ali bongo has all but disappeared from the public sphere and people are growing restless. There with but that he is incapacitated maybe even dead the president spin doctors need to sign him through mail they promise he will address the country and a new speech no one is the one. He worked on to get it on import. Of organ. But something about the video doesnt it. Hes barely move a blink of the camera his body in hand seemed rigid unnatural the public is not convinced the video looks played back in the quest. What of seeing isnt believing i want to see if deceiving. Off the back of this yet i was at an attempted military coup this video actually was used to some people it was like vindication for their suspicions saying no we were right because this is definitely fake this is fake. Force so you can see how deep fakes could be very very easily used in controversies and things like this. Deep fake face graphs body transfer voice imitations can be used to make people appear to say things they never said and do things they never did you ever wonder why i am so. Maybe realistic fakes can be used by just about anyone with an agenda or an axe to grind to conceivably help were going to lection destabilize markets will start a war for now the target is mostly women a staggering 96 percent of the fakes on nonconsensual panel graffiti produced by mythologized hobbyists in the shadia margins of the internet theyve become big money makers. Womens bodies identities and rights that are being transgressed and oppressed basically by quite small prolific body of actors that are basically taking a celebrity female actors places and basically transplanting those into pornography scenes and there are huge websites that profit millions of dollars from displaying and sharing in streaming these kind of depraved you know the support of graffiti this is primarily targeting western celebrities although our Research Found a 3rd of targets were from not were not from us in countries and even more surprisingly perhaps a quarter were of south korean k. Pop stars and there are also a number of websites springing up which are dedicated to creating the run things like poles who. Do you want us to create a pornographic video of next with appetising which shows that this isnt just kind of some sort of whole be any more this is a potentially lucrative business content exists on a spectrum shallow fakes or cheap fakes of far more crude its typically rely on deceptive editing slowing down or speeding up video maybe a bit of green screen fakery. If you use the filter on snap shots or talk for something. 21 the fun we can think of the jim acosta video from last fall so november 2018 and which of the footage was changed as it sort of morphed across social media the frame dropping within those videos made it look like you know these actions were much more forceful than they actually were in real life and then we have the nancy pelosi video from last summer as an example of slowing down existing video to make it look like she was you know speaking very slowly to the point of slowing her words and you know appearing drunk so its really sad here says thing. Tell this to the room even a cheap fake can make headlines and have a political impact and in this new democratized access to video synthesis fakes all that hard to pretty so what happens when those with technical know how to get in on the act. Placed it has done exactly that harvesting the biometric data british Prime Minister johnson and leader of the opposition jeremy kaufman. Creating synthesise video both men indorsing each other for Prime Minister. Its a statement on some of the most pressing time. Right to privacy and this british voters went to the polls the integrity of the democratic process. Should. Be Prime Minister. One of the elements of the video that youve been looking for ive kind of telltale signs but were not used to the fact that its not real as one of the real kind of like key reasons. Why im creating this type of artistic content its Media Literacy essentially right its a raise awareness of this powerful new technologies and techniques of image manipulation and understand the type of constantly reviewing so what ive been looking for is for traditional deep frank is the whole facial region. Quite often when the new face model is applied its always done with a mask and you may see some slight collaborations around the edges of the frame of the face in particular you know were looking for slight differences in skins things like that were also looking about the facial proportions is there some kind of. Kind of element of the facial proportions that just seems off or not but its increasingly difficult to notice interest and interpret this type of concern. Tackling those risks is considerably more difficult because of how video is proliferate across closed messaging apps like whatsapp without any scrutiny on moderation. And if not just fake different from nation delivery to offer lots of state to bad ones specialists and manipulative propaganda and foul play what if it were possible to walk into satellite imagery and simplistically creates a missile silo where one does not exist concoct troop movements where they do not exist. And what happens in Video Evidence upon which criminals are prosecuted and juries thats why it becomes inadmissible in court. If the images become thoroughly discredited they become unusable important to remember you know deep fakes are simply. Technological capacity. To generate different types of misinformation and they really highlight the fact that our. Information and communication environment there is no one who. Able to effectively rein in misinformation what were seeing now a huge transnational global architecture has this whole kind of digital influence industry thats emerged over the last 1012 years or so a lot of the transmission of information instance heinously its wouldnt says the threat really is more insidious with regards to their surveillance alk its such as that some scholars today are calling the the infrastructures of surveillance capitalism were living in increasingly to face synthetic quote whether thats the Smartphone Camera that you have which pro does computational photography whether that. Series voice on your phone or perhaps even go into place then you voice a system which is meant to sound interesting issue for a real person not all of these are bought and we need to have nuance to the discussion around deep fakes and synthetic media in general. To make sure that were not kind of demonizing we uses of this technology but it is also very important by people creating those forms of technology to make sure that they are not open to abuse thing has never really been believing we all have blind spots and up inception the brain constantly truth is the most likely interpretation of what we think. The vegs muddy the waters even. Their existence is enough to make us down what we see pretty much as they make the very appear real so true can the real be dismissed as very. And finally having 1st raised the prospect of impeaching donald trump before he was even sworn in as president the opposition democrats have finally rolled out the articles of impeachment that the process requires the allegations that the former reality t. V. Star tried to coerce our Ukrainian Government led by a comedian into investigating his potential rival for the white house joe biden provide online satirists with plenty of material. 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