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Pat Robertson Didn’t Actually Blame America’s Coronavirus Crisis On Oral Sex
There’s a new quote from Pat Robertson circulating on social media that supposedly shows the far-right pastor blaming the coronavirus pandemic on oral sex. Robertson is quoted as saying, “Some of these young uns are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex organs.” Admittedly, it sounds like something Robertson would say in real…
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Alphabet’s Jigsaw Develops Tool To Help Journalists Identify Manipulated Imagery
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Facebook Bans Deepfake Videos That Would Mislead The Average Person, Fails To Define ‘Average Person’
Facebook announced overnight that it will ban any deepfake videos that wouldn’t be recognised by the average person as parody or satire. There was just one problem: the tech giant didn’t clearly define any of those terms. The Book of Faces didn’t bother to say what “parody,” “satire,” or “average person,” means, which will probably bite…
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Ring Camera Hacks, Viral Fakes, And Decade Highlights: Best Gizmodo Stories Of The Week
December always goes by too fast in my opinion. One moment, it’s the first and I have all the time in the world to scope out Christmas presents, and the next moment I’m in a mad dash to slap a bow and some wrapping paper on whatever last-minute gift I managed to grab that morning…