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Nov 5, 2019

Rep. Diana DeGette on differences between the Clinton and Trump impeachment inquiries. Then, the head of a Pueblo synagogue reacts to a white supremacist's alleged threat. Plus, could "deep fake" videos sway the 2020 election? And, a Colorado doctor's role in a breakthrough therapy for CF. Also, a cell phone-free school. Finally, Denver's Chimney Choir.

Jun 13, 2019

Congress is set to hold a hearing amid concerns about “deepfakes,” or fake videos manipulated to look incredibly real, and how they can spread false information or influence elections. NBC’s Morgan Radford takes a closer look at the technology for TODAY.

Jun 7, 2019

Washington Journal - University of Colorado-Denver’s Jeff Smith discusses the creation and distribution of “deepfake” videos, especially as Congress plans to investigate their use.

Feb 17, 2019

More than four years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation appealed to the public to help identify the narrator in one of the Islamic State’s best-known videos, showing captured Syrian soldiers digging their own graves and then being shot in the head. Speaking fluent English with a North American accent, the man would go on to narrate countless other videos and radio broadcasts by the Islamic State, serving as the terrorist group’s faceless evangelist to Americans and other English speakers seeking to learn about its toxic ideology. Now a 35-year-old Canadian citizen, who studied at a college in Toronto and once worked in information technology at a company contracted by IBM, says he is the anonymous narrator.

Jan 1, 2019

CNN - Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video – known as “deepfakes” – relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level. Click here for more on deepfakes and what the US government is doing to combat them.