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Journalism. why? >> it seems it's been crafted to send a signal to the american press that they are vulnerable to the same thing julian assange is accused doing. i think he should be locked up for crimes but to charge him under the espionage act is to point a loaded gun to american jou journalism as a whole. it's the bread and butter of american journalism. they gather secrets and do it in pattern. that's what he stands accused of. >> journalists have not been subject to this charge. the government says he's not a journalist. let me read from page two of the indictment summarizing the charges....

It's basic editing and slowing down of the speed. >> the research community had to come up with a term for it. they are calling it sheep fakes because there's so many. you can do it on a phone. it's a really quick thing to do. i think it's important to note, the idea this wasn't organized is probably naive. this was going around for the last couple of days. had millions of views on facebook and you tube and last night the president tweets this other video that is slightly altered in one way. i think this is part of a much larger strategy. it was one deployed in 2016 to insinuate that hillary c...

News feed. if it wouldn't come up naturally, it probably won't come up. it will still be there. it got pushed off youtube. there's no swat team that sits around and like this thing is trending now. is it real? there's none of that going on now. what happened is the washington post found this video. they saw millions of views it had. they brought it to the public's attention, facebook's attention and then they started to take action. there's no system in place. it's still just whack a mole. >> thanks for your reporting on this. ben collins. next, a one-on-one exclusive with a ji hhadist leade...