<description> &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;When journalist Julia Mengolini criticized her country&amp;rsquo;s president, Javier Milei, she didn&amp;rsquo;t expect to be targeted with one of the more disturbing uses of AI: a pornographic deepfake video designed to humiliate her. What began as trolling by online extremists spiraled into a government-amplified smear campaign, spurred on by senior officials and the president himself.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Juila tells reporter/producer Zach St. Louis what happened to her and what she&amp;rsquo;s doing to fight back against President Milei &amp;ndash; an ally of Donald Trump&amp;rsquo;s and Elon Musk&amp;rsquo;s.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Question Everything&amp;rdquo; is a production of &lt;a href="http://www.kcrw.org"&gt;KCRW&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.placementtheory.com"&gt;Placement Theory&lt;/a&gt;. And don&amp;rsquo;t forget to sign up for our &lt;a href="https://questioneverything.substack.com/"&gt;newsletter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Please help support our show by visiting our sponsor, the notetaking and personal assistant device &lt;a href="http://plaud.ai"&gt;Plaud.ai&lt;/a&gt;, and use offer code QUESTION.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Guests:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Julia Mengolini &amp;mdash; Journalist, radio host, and co-founder of Futurock&lt;/p&gt; </description>

Question Everything

Brian Reed

'We Don't Hate Journalists Enough': The Story of an F-ed Up Deepfake

NOV 13, 202546 MIN
Question Everything

'We Don't Hate Journalists Enough': The Story of an F-ed Up Deepfake

NOV 13, 202546 MIN

Description

<p dir="ltr">When journalist Julia Mengolini criticized her country&rsquo;s president, Javier Milei, she didn&rsquo;t expect to be targeted with one of the more disturbing uses of AI: a pornographic deepfake video designed to humiliate her. What began as trolling by online extremists spiraled into a government-amplified smear campaign, spurred on by senior officials and the president himself.</p> <p dir="ltr">Juila tells reporter/producer Zach St. Louis what happened to her and what she&rsquo;s doing to fight back against President Milei &ndash; an ally of Donald Trump&rsquo;s and Elon Musk&rsquo;s.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p dir="ltr">&ldquo;Question Everything&rdquo; is a production of <a href="http://www.kcrw.org">KCRW</a> and <a href="http://www.placementtheory.com">Placement Theory</a>. And don&rsquo;t forget to sign up for our <a href="https://questioneverything.substack.com/">newsletter</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Please help support our show by visiting our sponsor, the notetaking and personal assistant device <a href="http://plaud.ai">Plaud.ai</a>, and use offer code QUESTION.</p> <p dir="ltr">Guests:</p> <p>Julia Mengolini &mdash; Journalist, radio host, and co-founder of Futurock</p>