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Rushkoff: Deepfakes will force public to rely on trusted journalists and publications
“The thing that's going to happen, I guess, is as deep fakes and other, other kinds of media come out that make it really impossible to distinguish between what is being said and what is not. We're going to, again, just as we did before any video existed, We're…”
Rushkoff: The New York Times misrepresented Israeli COVID study for clicks
“So when I see a piece In the New York Times that, you know, the headline and the first few paragraphs are arguing that, oh, you know, when Israel opened up its schools, its elementary schools COVID rates went up. And then you finally read all the way down, and…”
Rushkoff: Cable networks will be seen as opinion news if anchors opine
“If MSNBC and CNN and whatever are going to put on, you know, newscasters who are opining throughout these you know, broadcasts, then they're going to be seen as a opinion, opinion news.”
Rushkoff: Gen Z will abandon the dissatisfaction of living like infomercials
“I feel like there's growing dissatisfaction among them for this, you know, influencer culture, you know, that, that, that, that living your life as some sort of an infomercial is not satisfying and that they're going to move on.”