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Podcast: The Knife Party Podcast
Episode: A KNIFE PARTY EXCLUSIVE! - CAVIAR
Description: CAVIAR, written in the second year of the pandemic, arose from a number of anxieties. I was disturbed by the increasingly blurred line between facts and misinformation. Particularly disquieting was the emergence of deepfakes—even now, recordings can be modified or manufactured by anyone with the technical knowledge to do so. While a careful observer can usually tell a deepfake from an authentic recording, this will not be the case in the future.
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A news junkie, I found that the polarization in the mainstream press made it difficult—even impossible—to determine which sources were dedicated to unbiased reporting, and which w...