(Why do all lefties, have an arrogant gleam of darkness around them?)

Stanford misinformation expert accused of using AI to fabricate court statement

By Linda Liu Dec. 2, 2024, 12:45 a.m.

Communication professor Jeff Hancock, anexpert on technology and misinformation, has been accused of usingartificial intelligence (AI) to craft a court statement.

In November,Hancock — who is the founding directorof Stanford’s Social Media Lab —filed a declaration in a Minnesota court caseover the state’s 2023 law that criminalizes the use of deepfakes to influence an election. Theprofessor’s 12-page declarationin defense of the law contained 15 citations,two of which cannot be found.

The plaintiffs of the case, Republican Minnesota State Representative Mary Franson and conservative social media satirist Christopher Kohls,argued that the law is an unconstitutional limit on free speech. Submitting his testimony on behalf of a defendant, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Hancock claimed that deepfakes, or AI-generated media that alter a person’s likeness or voice, can enhance the persuasiveness of misinformation and defy traditional factchecking methods.

He made his declaration, for whichhe was compensated at the government rate of $600 per hour, under penalty of perjury that everything he stated in the document was “true and correct.”

The Daily and other news outletscould not find two academic journal articles that Hancock cited— “Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance” and “The Influence of Deepfake Videos on Political Attitudes and Behavior” — via their reported digital object identifier or in the archives of their reported journals.

Pointing out the errors in Hancock’s declaration in a Nov. 16 filing, Franson and Kohls’ attorney Frank Berdnarz called for it to be excluded from the judge’s consideration of whether to give a preliminary injunction against the law.

“The citation bears the hallmarks of being an artificial intelligence (AI) ‘hallucination,’ suggesting that at least the citation was generated by a large language model like ChatGPT,” Berdnarz wrote. “The existence of a fictional citation Hancock(or his assistants) didn’t even bother to click calls into question the quality and veracity of the entire declaration.”

The Daily has reached out to Hancock for comment.

Hancock, who currently teaches COMM 1: “Introduction to Communication” and COMM 324: “Language and Technology,”appearedin a 2024 Netflix documentary featuringBill Gates, offering insights on the future of AI.

The professor isscheduled to teachCOMM 124/224:“Truth, Trust, and Tech” on deception and communication technology in the spring.

Kohls, known for his social mediamoniker Mr. Reagan, previouslychallenged the constitutionalityof two California bills signed into law in September by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The bills, AB 2655 and AB 2839, require online platforms to block certain deceptive media content relating to elections and prohibit the distribution of advertising content with deceptive media content. Newsom called out Kohls’ viral video, which manipulated Kamala Harris’ voice in a campaign ad, to be illegal.

Yuanlin "Linda" Liu ‘25 is The Daily's vol. 266 Editor-in-Chief. She was previously managing editor of arts & life during vol. 263 and 264 and magazine editor during vol. 265. Contact her at eic 'at' stanforddaily.com.

https://stanforddaily.com/2024/12/02/jeff-hancock-court-declaration/

Was Hancock involved in the Stanford study about misinformation and elections, it wouldn’t surprise me at all?

Ana Kasparian@AnaKasparian

Bush suspended Habeas Corpus for two years. You were his speechwriter.

David Frum@davidfrum (Neocon of Neocons)

·Nov 30

We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than Watergate

3:41 AM · Dec 1, 2024

·1.4M Views

https://x.com/AnaKasparian/status/1863141366626144661

(Her response is exactly why Google wants to erase history)

Keith Olbermann

@KeithOlbermann

Pardon Hunter? GREAT. Now pardon everybody else.

Every prosecutor, every Biden administration staffer, every media figure, everybody Trump will persecute.

10,000,000 pardons. At least.

8:58 PM · Dec 1, 2024

·1M Views

https://x.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1863402310283472953

Told you this morning Joe will pardon 1,000s, and he's got his insane cheerleader here, and starting it. Don't be surprised when the media starts repeating this.

Is there an anon that can collect the responses to Olbermann on X, they should be hysterical?

Eric Holder@EricHolder

Hunter. Here’s the reality.

No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear.

Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination.

Pardon warranted.

Ask yourself a vastly more important question.Do you really think Kash Patel is qualified to lead the world’s preeminent law enforcement investigative organization? Obvious answer: hell no.

(They sure are freakin out about Kashu, even more than Gaetz, but Kashu has no skeletons in his closet for them to misuse. Over the Target choice!)

8:06 PM · Dec 1, 2024

·2.4M Views

https://x.com/EricHolder/status/1863389327310692525

Holder there is no one in America that believes you on the law, except the DS, be quiet, before you name is raised.

When you see a headline like this from Politico, you know it's either extremely broken ethics (which they have done) or against the law.

Shocking Politico is almost impossible, but Joe did it

https://archive.is/LXk8D#selection-923.9-923.166

(Look at the SS just behind Hunter, and he's looking down seeing how Hunter is holding onto the back of his daughter's coat or hood. The SS guy doesn't look happy, and looks like he would come to her aid if needed. I bet the SS with Hunter and Joe, cannot stand what they know and see.)

"President Joe Biden is accompanied by his son, Hunter Biden,and his grandson, Beau, in departing a book store in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Nov. 29, 2024." (that's not his grandson, it's Hunter's daughter Navy I think. Why did they mislabel the little girl?)

(OMG, this article is a meme makers heaven! And freaking funny)

Democrats Face an Existential Crisis on X

Conversations with a dozen insiders point to a party that is unsure about whether to leave or engage with the increasingly MAGA platform.

(This was planned by Media, very poorly too, but they really do sound like children, "I’m leaving and taking my football with me", andwhat really worries them, is NOBODY cares!four pages of whining and crying, I’ll only post the first one)

By NANCY SCOLA 11/30/2024 02:00 PM EST

Two days after the election, Patrick Dillon, a longtime Democratic strategist and current Biden administration official, announced on X that he was leaving the platform.

“If you really want the ‘why I’m leaving twitter,’ I guess there’s the whole Elon of it,” Dillon posted, but added a few more reasons: the pointlessness of X, the fact that it “hasn’t been much fun lately,” and that, with things getting worse with Trump in office, by Dillon’s lights, “I’m just not sure that this is going to be the most constructive or even healthy vehicle to deal with that.”

Dillon, who currently serves as adviser to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, is of course not alone. You may well have seen it in your timelines already: a growing drumbeat of Democrats and left-leaning types announcing why they’re leaving the platform. In just the few weeks since the election, that has included former CNN anchor Don Lemon, basketball star LeBron James, author Stephen King, actress Jamie Lee Curtis and MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.

But the situation is a bit more complicated for Democratic lawmakers, strategists and the like who might have come to dislike X but have also grown to depend on it to shape minds and win elections. It might seem a trivial matter, but the trend has prompted a larger debate that encapsulates the many other conversations the liberal ecosystem — elected officials, Hill staffers, administration aides, activists, lobbyists, opinion-shapers and beyond — is having in the wake of Trump’s election win: Should left-leaning people and Democratic voters wall MAGA off as much as possible and hope that eventually it suffocates? Or try even harder to meet those voters where they are, or at least understand them?

The reasons the leavers are giving are plentiful.

“There’s no pretend at this point,” said Dillon when I called to ask him about his decision to quit X. “This is a vehicle to support [Musk’s] political views and his candidates.” He also pointed to what he saw as a decline in quality of the platform — “trash ads and scammy replies and porn bots” — and the fact that, as he saw it, one of its core functions, reaching out to journalists, has become suspect given questions over whether Musk might be willing to violate the privacy of the site’s direct-messaging tools.

But key, said Dillon, is Musk’s hijacking of the site to his own political ends.(Oh you mean how Twitter under Jack, and the management by the mandate of the government, banned tons of conservative, you mean those kind of political ends?)

In conversations with a wide range of other left-leaning insiders, his concerns were fairly typical. Among those who were leaving or contemplating it, the most prominent reasons included Musk’s push to not just rollback the platform’s once robust filtering of what it judged misinformation and bullying but to what some researchers have said is tilting the site to boost Donald Trump’s chances.

Others, though, argue that the statistically significant dip in Democratic users over time is a worrying trend and that the so-called self-deplatforming of progressives is ultimately self-defeating.

“If we leave X, it will help Elon with his goal of making the platform void of any progressive ideology or the way we think about the world,” Maxwell Frost, a 27-year-old member of Congress from Florida, told me, “and leave it to the Charlie Kirks and Tim Pools of the world to fill it up with what they believe.”

No matter the reasons, many are finding quitting X isn’t easy. Dillon himself can vouch for that. He has posted a handful of times since his breakup. “Look, the posting habit dies hard,” wrote Dillon. “One day at a time.”…

“I love Twitter and also hate it,” said the source. “Kinda like how Gollum feels about the ring.”

https://archive.is/ngDrj

(Only Politico would give this bullshit any credibility. these people need therapists.)

>>22093957

Excellent, andnotable. Looks like something Hunter would do. BTW Hunter looks pretty wiped out with drugs in this picture.

>>22093856

Schitt, has always been the one that I want to be arrested first, and then Vindman and all his allies. He's a noisy shitter, he should be aware that talking like this is only bring more attention on his crimes.

>>22094335

It's definitely around the corner, they will not be able to walk down the street.

>>22093807

30 Nov, 2024 20:55

French-born Georgian president refuses to leave office

Salome Zourabichvili has refused to recognize the legitimacy of the newly elected parliament and says that it cannot choose her successor (The tool of the West and EU is panicking, she lost and has to go. Is that fear in her eyes.)

Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will not step down from her position despite the end of her mandate in December, she said in a video address on Saturday, explaining that she does not recognize the legitimacy of the newly-formed parliament and intends to stay in office until new elections.

“I remain your President! There is no legitimate parliament that will elect a new president,” she said in a video published on her Facebook page. “My mandate continues until there is a legitimately elected parliament that will legitimately elect a President who will replace me!”

Under the 2017 Georgian Constitution, the head of state is elected by an electoral college consisting of 300 members. Half of them are MPs, and another half are representatives of various Georgian regions. The next presidential vote is scheduled for December 14. Whoever wins is reportedly expected to be inaugurated before the end of the year.

In October, the South Caucasus nation also held parliamentary elections.

The Georgian Dream party, which seeks to establish pragmatic relations with all the country’s neighbors, including Russia,emerged victorious with nearly 54% of the vote.The pro-Western opposition parties have refused to recognize the results, sparking a wave of street protests.

The French-born Zourabichvili – a career diplomat for Paris who acquired Georgian citizenship in her 50s – condemned the October election as a “Russian-style” operation, claiming that Georgian Dream is steering the nation towards Moscow and away from that of the EU. She also called for mass protests.

A new wave of demonstrations was sparked this week by the Georgian government’s decision to suspend EU accession talks until 2028. Tbilisi accused Brussels of using the talks to meddle in Georgian politics using “constant blackmail and manipulation.”

On Friday,Zourabichvili published another video address, in which she called on various Georgian officials, including the military and the security services, to join the anti-government protests. She also said that “resistance” was on the rise in the country.

The president described this week’s protests as “extremely peaceful” andblamed the street violence exclusively on the police. “This is your responsibility and only yours,” she said in her speech on Friday. Zourabichvili also joined the protests on Friday night, according to local media reports.(Just what they did in Ukraine)

At least ten law enforcement officers were injured in violent clashes with demonstrators that night, according to the Georgian Interior Ministry. Over 250 people have reportedly been arrested in connection with the protests in Tbilisi over the past two days.

On Saturday,Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze blamed the developments on EU meddling and vowed to prevent a scenario similar to Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan coup, which led to the ouster of the legitimately elected president, Viktor Yanukovich.

https://www.rt.com/russia/608467-georgian-president-refuse-leave-office/

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I hope we never find life on another planet because if we do there's no doubt that the United States will start sending them money!

6:34 AM · Jan 16, 2014

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/423780333687808001

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

THANK YOU HILLARY, THIS WILL NEVER NOT BE FUNNY.

From A Man Of Memes

Last edited

11:51 AM · Dec 2, 2024

·8,789 Views

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1863627082162384987

But it will always be notable

Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera

Most dads including this one would do what Joe Biden did. Blood is thicker than water. He was willing to tarnish his honor and reputation to save his child (who he believed was being shafted). Too bad, but it’s not like he appointed him Ambassador to France.

10:18 PM · Dec 1, 2024

· 771.5K Views

https://x.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1863422452354736446

Geraldo is always wrong on everything, what crime did he commit?

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

HAMAS CAMPERS STORM ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL IN IRELAND.

From Catholic Arena

11:39 AM · Dec 2, 2024

· 7,549 Views

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1863624002104705110

The left in Europe are really trying to destroy all faith, this is sick

>>22094515

Even if that is true, Hamas protesting in the cathedral is a desecration to the religion and the people.