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key to detecting deepfake videos, hopefully before a carefully released phony
video causes some real damage.
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE IS AT WAR WITH ITSELF
When we talk about Russian election interference or Russian troll farms, we
assume that the intelligence agencies of Mother Russia are in lockstep and
acting as part of a single cunning plan. According to one researcher, that
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intelligence agencies, jostling for resources and prestige, and completely willing
to play dirty to get ahead. Sometimes, the consequences are dire.
WEAPONIZING THE INTERNET
In a session about the Russian dark web, researchers examined how recent
Russian laws are making it harder to police activity within that country. Russia
is now building a kind of internal internet, designed to function even when cut
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making it much harder to get at Russian sites that carry out illegal activity.
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