Joe Perticone
speaker
314 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 20 May
Joe Perticone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's different with us.
We're journalists.
We have that traditional background.
We have those ethics that are instilled in the way that you go about telling a story.
Content creators and influencers, there's plenty of great ones, plenty of awesome ones.
But in many cases, they do things for money, sponsored content.
And it's not always clear if a campaign is paying that person.
So sometimes this would be disclosed if the campaign directly paid them, but maybe the campaign hires a consultancy who then pays that influencer to back a candidate.
You saw in the governor race, Tom Steyer paying influencers 10 bucks a pop per video, you know, which is not a lot, but it can add up if you do a lot of them.
And then there's this other component in which Rob Flaherty, who is the Harris digital director in 2024, he wrote in the bulwark the postmortem where there was candidates were getting extorted in which the influencer says, give me $5,000 or I'll back your opponent.
I brought that up with a few senators and Brian Schatz told me, he was like, oh, I'm very familiar with that.
That's a common thing that happens.
And so it's this wild west of unregulated or
lots of loophole space in which you open your phone, you watch a video about how great someone is or how bad someone is, and you think, wow, this is an honest arbiter of truth.
That's not always the case.
And so no one really knows who's being paid by a campaign or not at this moment.
The other layer of that is with AI.
And so these crypto companies, they run these packs, like Robert Reich said in the video,
But also these campaign organizations are using AI to reconstruct quotes, maybe if it was a reported quote, and then they'll add Chuck Schumer's voice to turn it into an ad in which he's actually saying it on camera.
Or they'll go even further where the,
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