90 Miles From Tyranny : Barack Obama Pushes ‘Digital Fingerprints’ to Fight ‘Misinformation’

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Barack Obama Pushes ‘Digital Fingerprints’ to Fight ‘Misinformation’


Barack Obama, who was instrumental in fueling the media’s “misinformation” narrative before he left office, has a new buzzword — “digital fingerprints.”

The former Democrat president wants the origin of digital information such as photos and videos to be clearly traced, to fight the spread of deepfakes.

“That technology’s here now,” said Obama in a discussion with his former advisor David Axelrod on the latter’s CNN podcast. “So, most immediately we’re going to have all the problems we had with misinformation before, [but] this next election cycle will be worse.”

“”And the need for us, for the general public, I think to be more discriminating consumers of news and information, the need for us to over time develop technologies to create watermarks or digital fingerprints so we know what is true and what is not true.”

The idea of fighting “misinformation” by tracing the origin of digital info is not new. A coalition of tech and media companies led by Microsoft is already trying to make this technology the industry standard, as is a coalition with similar goals led by Adobe.

Before he left office, President Obama helped spark the media panic over “fake news” — later rebranded as “misinformation” — that was adopted by the media, NGOs, and tech companies as a pretext to suppress conservative content.

Hours before election day 2016, the Democrat president was giving interviews to the media about the dangers of “fake news,” and in the weeks following the election of Donald Trump, used public appearances to talk about the problem of “misinformation.”

Prior to this, the topic was not discussed widely in the media. Afterwards, it was everywhere. And by 2020, it was a key part of the media and tech industry’s efforts to interfere in...



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8 comments:

Mind your own business said...

THe Obama cohort wants to be able to track down anyone who disagrees with or contradicts their narrative, so they can persecute or eliminate them.

This is real life science fiction nightmare stuff. These people need to be hammered so hard that they flinch from ever trying something like this again.

Peteforester said...

Screw him...

Anonymous said...

Fuck that guy, his husband mike, that barry soetero guy, and the goat all 5 of them ran a train on.

boron said...

Wonder how he'd look with a hempen necktie
Oops! that's rayciss.

lungta said...

can't find the vid tip line so ...
https://www.tiktok.com/@the_fire_lad/video/7093978625057230086

Gretz said...

I think that should also apply for the Democrats' lackeys in corporate media. Who generated the story, what's the coordination and collusion, who's the 'unidentified source'. How many simply parrot some BS story out of the AP without doing a shred of validation on their own?

If it refers to "Science", it needs a proper cite, including their funding sources, and the raw data provided, not the cherry picked data that miraculously.

Every time the government (or the DNC) quashes a story, requests or directs a big tech company to censor, it should be in a publicly accessible repository.

24/7 discovery should be a thing for these weasels.

While we're at it, publishing every meeting with congress critters and business, including lectures for compensation, along with their trades should be required, along with those of their family members.

Yeah, O'bozo, lets have some transparency and tracking, you hypocrite.

Anonymous said...

Seems some people that do not want their records released to the public are happy to use public information for their own nefarious purpose. Eventually we will need to return ownership of all that data stolen from all the people it is about. No one else should have claim to your personal possessions again.

Anonymous said...

Revelation 13:16,17. Ever closer to the Mark of the Beast we march.