{"id":91991,"date":"2019-06-13T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/congress-is-officially-freaking-out-about-deepfakes"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:25:20","slug":"congress-is-officially-freaking-out-about-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/congress-is-officially-freaking-out-about-deepfakes","title":{"rendered":"Congress Is Officially Freaking Out About Deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/congress-is-officially-freaking-out-about-deepfakes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Outgunned<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The news comes after the spread of a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2019\/may\/24\/real-v-fake-debunking-the-drunk-nancy-pelosi-footage-video\">tampered with<\/a> to make her appear drunk. Earlier this month, the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/altered-nancy-pelosi-video-seems-to-have-disappeared-from-facebook-no-one-knows-why\/\">mysteriously disappeared<\/a> from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/06\/13\/facebook-deep-fakes-2020-1527268\">said Thursday<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re well prepared at all. And I don\u2019t think the public is aware of what\u2019s coming. There\u2019s no end to the pernicious abuse of this technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/congress-deepfakes-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgunned The news comes after the spread of a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that had been tampered with to make her appear drunk. Earlier this month, the video mysteriously disappeared from Facebook. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday, \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re well prepared at all. And I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}