vance research projects agency or darpa announced to the world that it will be starting the semantic forensics program or semaphores to quote darpa they will develop technologies to automatically detect attribute and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets to defend against large scale automated this information attacks basically they're going against fake news and military jargon yes darpa the defense agency that brought us those wonderful nightmare inducing running and jumping robots swarming drone videos and who can forget the laser guided bullets that is now getting into the business of combating fake news naturally those most afraid of fake news the ones who have worked hand in hand with us intelligence agencies to spread the paranoia over it the us corporate news media they are the most excited about this move by darpa bloomberg writes that

if successful this system after 4 years of trials may expand to detect malicious intent and prevent viral fake news from polarizing society. conveniently forgetting that there is never actually ben any evidence that viral fake news stories have polarized society or legitimately influence that election and james people's votes that actually doesn't exist so it's a day let's kick start the algorithms and find out just how darpa's going to fight this apparent scourge of big news as we start watching the whole x. 40 treat that the say rails with it it's look as it takes a dip to sit what the day like you know that it i got with that we would that these

it's a concert welcome them one the watching the harks i am without a rolled winter and i'm taffeta law last yes i am the fear both of bra you the creeping as robot see of the jumpy won't anna their robots that praying night merits to all americans now it's going to decide what's real and fake yes they are that's seems like now problem i are bat as an the beginning of every science section unstick opiate say if they say and like dark pose also i mean not only to the tweet about needing underground tunnels apparently 1st some undisclosed project to but they owe you know now there are good they're going to go when the war pentagon's lace and up their boots in their scientists through help stop fake news so just so you understand what what the some a for program is looking their booking the develop a subtly likes 3 hours or rhythms that would be that would consist of semantic detection which would bigger out of media was generated or manipulated ok they

would have an attribution algorithm will would conclude whether you know where or media where came from woods you know on organization or a person and and finally they're going to develop a characterization algorithm to i was there that would determine if media was created or manipulated with malicious intent yes a computer algorithm will decide that if media is not related with a malicious intent or manipulated with a militia malicious intent that's an i don't know that i. in the computer is going to decide what somebody meant but there. is that that's a big you can't tell the difference between satire joe any of those things so it all sort of i mean i get the idea of it looking at something like fakes right where you have videos that have been altered if you have images that have been altered if you have images that are purported to be of say with the amazon rain forest with

the fires you had a lot of major outlets putting out putting out pictures that are from every dry season right not the ones that were actually related to a specific. story exactly so i could be hopeful it could be but you know it goes back to the thing is like you know there's still going to be programmers involved at some point how do you decide what is or is not malicious content or what is or is not news i mean the democrats or republicans accuse each other of big news all the time who is going to decide what actually is right you know at the heart of the right and i don't know what's the problem with the u.s. military gets to decide boy we trust that's always worked out really well so i don't know why. so when you as i what will darpa's algorithm actually do with this like officially sanctioned like what happens to it ok so it's there so one of the things that was look at things like fake identities and using online ones they're used to control unsuspecting what they call in suspecting individuals and

to collaborating and fake f.b.i. terror plots so you can easily be used you know what are going to do in that situation where it's suddenly discovered is going to be fake online profiles as oh that's fake and you know we know it's there for a reason the government of the government itself including the pentagon has a pretty extensive history of running what you like you said fake social media profiles to collect data on persons of interest. c m s n b c fox and c.n.n. have all run quite literally fake news stories given to them by law enforcement in order to catch a criminal but not part of the show to catch it you know that but their idea was so and we've had people on the show this is going on for years where they've literally had them put in false stories and propaganda major artist like you know the paris review of things like that so it's one of those things are on my what happens when a bumps up against some sort of special projects i guess that goes back to the

decides like oh well this is ok for news you know the algorithm will decide oh well this is sanctioned fake news. this is an extension get news you would not have registered if the f.a.q. is a.j. i think if i had to read the job here 1st and tapper i mean and. rachel maddow probably did anyway i'm getting off track here. but really i mean the whole scourge of fake news and while printing tab and you agree is that it really comes down to the way you stop it is through education is through teaching people to look for multiple sources for teaching people to question i mean syracuse university assistant professor communications jennifer gray deal told bloomberg that darpa's timeline does seem slow because it's not going to be done by the 2020 lection which everyone so afraid of big news influencing and she says i wonder if it's a bit of a p.r. move educating the public on media literacy along with legislation is what is important but elected officials lack motivation themselves for change and there is conflict of interest as they are though they are using these very platforms to get elected

standard procedures put out fake news stories about your enemy going to hundreds of millions of dollars that were. all campaigns on facebook on twitter and that will say well thing. created in $1440.00 in college in london has instructed and shaped the young minds of writers like ian fleming and george orwell to adventure their grills and even prussian philosopher and economist karl marx however it is their lineage of political heavyweights that has always kept the expensive school for boys $13.00 to $18.00 in the headlines 20 prime ministers including david cameron and alexander boris the facile johnson yes that boris johnson have intended his application process can take at least 3 years to complete a process that was discovered has 13 to 14 year old boys writing speeches to excuse government sanctioned violence in

a question that begins with this passage from the prince by niccolo machiavelli begins concerning cruelty and clemency and whether it is better to be loved than feared and it states a prince so long as he keeps his subjects united and loyal ought not to mind the reproach of cruelty because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who through too much mercy allow disorders to override is it done posits a scenario that is it's $24.00 in the u.k. is experiencing riots gas shortage that leads to the applicant the prime minister to call in the army who subsequently kill 25 protesters b 2011 application for this collar shipped to eton college then asked applicants to quote write the script to free speech to be broadcast to the nation in which you explain why employing the army against violent protesters was the only option available to you and which one which was both necessary and moral so who's excited to spend

$40000.00 pounds a year to have their sons taught the proper way to crush the peasants but need their boots yet wow oh good. blow i woud so you're talking about 1314 year old kid one of most prestigious schools that spits out all of these great leaders and things like that leaders and then great leaders. and one of the questions asked them to essentially. how do you do if the government killing protesters. just that wow if that doesn't tell you a lot of i don't know what leaders are. in this world i'm just i don't litter trained yeah i'm like that's how they get that how that happens in the schools so you understand the school is one of the original 9 sort of english public schools are a little different than we have here. but they're somewhat independent but also don't

pay like 80 percent of their to go there so it all works out for that that started with the public schools act of $868.00 so they used to actually require saying it takes 3 years they say now to get your kid signed up start at 10 a is better but a regionally for a very long time you had to sign up and register your son for even the possibility of application there at birth war that was so. specific and so that's the prestigious the exclusive so this application was part of a scholarship application from 2011. and what's sad to think about that is a scholarship is probably somebody comes from a more middle class working class background and they're being asked like hey you know when unions are people who are like you and where you came from we don't they rise up against power can you explain how we can do that morally you shoot them down for protesting if they don't have enough. and what really gets me about this

too is when you really think about it it just it just makes that it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up because i'm like wow you know it be one thing if the school had like write an essay either condemning it or justifying it as you're there are choices you say what would you say now that i can see it but when it's like no you only can justify it i don't know what that's like what are they trying to put as i mean it well what's interesting is the scholarship you're speaking of boris johnson was actually recipient of the king's scholar though it's not known of the application. right this particular question when he applied this was only found in the 2011 scholarship up what they should say we don't know what actually more interesting questions he may have had to do and i know i'm like it's a story about how we're going to get it is a very odd application to you because then it has this like made up language of the 2nd one and it gets a little odd so there was a guy wrote to 2 individuals one of them it was adam nicholson he wrote

a book called about it about his time at eton and how they sort of private boarding schools artifact everybody and he described his experience there like this there was always a real sense that we were kind of the elite in every way socially intellectually educationally and financially. you tell me you know just google. you know it's one of those things where it's i heard a lot of jokes but i think it's a very odd situation when you look at this idea. yeah. like just not a good question and a good come on all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget the what is the what you think of the topics we've covered on our social media be sure to check out watching the hoxsey podcast which is now available on spotify apple music and everywhere you may was and your favorite podcast coming up we delve into all things china in the united states and take an in-depth look at the protests the trade war and tech giant why wait stay tune to watch for the full.

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they do it several times a day with a big lead now or you get an idea of why. we have to understand we can still use to just. be with this or b. is the deal going to start. doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we. china has dominated the news cycles over the past several months 6 to 3 major stories coming out of and involving the people's republic 1st the contrary search

the controversy surrounding the united states versus the number one telecom supplier in the world while way a nutshell this involved the u.s. government accusing the tech giant of spying and of having malicious ties to the chinese government that story played a part in the bigger tale that was the ongoing trade war instigated by the trumpet ministration against china and now currently wreaking havoc on the economies of the 2 superpowers and 3rd has been the ongoing demonstrations and protests in hong kong over chinese. women's push to change the extradition agreements that has with the region the protests began back in march and april and it's now continued into september r.t. america's michelle greenstein is in hong kong with news of what many think could be a potential breakthrough that could bring these demonstrations to an end after 3 months of protests violent clashes between the hong kong police and anti-government demonstrators $1100.00 arrests and what some are calling the biggest political crisis in hong kong since it was returned back to china in 1907 hong kong chief

executive carrie lim finally withdrew that contentious amendment to extradition law today now she explained that this is a bill that had already been temporarily shelf and that it was scheduled to actually automatically be withdrawn next year in july however now she is officially withdrawing it today to remove any doubt about her intentions additionally she addressed the remaining 4 demands from these anti-government protesters were guarding the issue of police brutality she says that there is already an investigation into this alleged police brutality by the hong kong police and that she is fully intends to cooperate with the complaints counsel investigation in this matter now regarding the right designation the protesters had requested that the riot designation be removed and that the be called protesters instead of rioters she says that this will happen on a case by case basis and that there will not be a blanket and designation of these protesters being called rioters now regarding the issue of unconditional amnesty for all those arrested in connection with this

so-called democracy movement she says that this is an issue about the rule of law and that again this will happen on a case by case basis now we're guarding democracy regarding universal suffrage she says that 1st we need communication between all parties that are based on the grounds of trust and in order to do that she says 1st there needs to be an end to the violence additionally she pledged that she and other government officials would . going out into the communities speaking to members of society from all walks of life she said and they would be working to combat some of these social inequities to work to eradicate some of these economic disparities including the lack of land availability for a lot of people in hong kong now she is stressing that dialogue is what solve these problems that violence is pushing hong kong to a very dangerous territory and that even though protesters may have legitimate grievances with both the central government and the hong kong government that the most important thing she says to do right now is to defend the rule of law now i

witnessed the protester reaction just a couple hours ago i attended one of the press conferences given by some of these anonymous anti-government demonstrators and their reaction is unsatisfied to say the very least they say that this withdrawal quote has not changed a thing and they are stressing that this battle continues there reiterating their for demands and they're saying that they will continue this fight this has certainly been a violent movement we've seen last week and at the very least we saw rubber bullets tear gas and water cannons being used by the hong kong police and the weekend before that one police officer actually fired his revolver into the air as a warning shot although no one was injured and it was the 1st time that hong kong police have actually fired a real weapon in this regard not including a gun with rubber bullets which some may say show a bit of restraint from the hong kong police although many say that this extradition law being totally withdrawn may mean that some of these demonstrations

are going to and it's very possible that that is not the case given the reaction from some of these protest leaders the situation is very fluid additionally beijing has stressed and reiterated its unconditional authority to declare a state of emergency given the situation here in hong kong. joining us now is an interpreter that was covered the ongoing trade war tensions between the united states and china extensively this year and recently returned from an in-depth visit to the wall we had orders in china are 2 americas sara months the oka sir will also be presenting a half hour special on the ongoing controversy in fallout from the trade war and titled battlefield markets me trade wars that you can see this thursday live at 2 pm eastern on r.t. america thank you for joining us thank you for having me you know is the trade wars been going on for over a year now there's there's no end or deal in sight to it what is your take from from a different perspective during your time in china and hong kong what is what is your take from there and this well i think i've said this

a few times before and i can repeat it once again that what i heard is as nobody wants to trade or i'm in the united states i want to trade or china doesn't want to trade where hong kong is being affected not as much as mainland china but still they're being affected and you know wall and other companies are being pulled in to this trade war and and really it's is it about trade that there's more to it there's tech now there's ip theft there's a lot that goes into this trade war and president trump has said it time and time again that this is something that needed to be done by previous presidents and that this was huge for him and and it's kind of become a big thing for his present presidency and now for his reelection campaign is whether or not he'll make a deal one minute they're close to making a deal the next minute they're not so the take i really really got from just being there was that they don't see an end to this trade war they're hopeful that it might end with some sort of partial deal but again when i come home and things i hear in the united states a lot of experts and analysts are saying we're close to recession this is affecting

us in such a bad way long term we're already seeing some affects the consumer there was j.p. morgan a report recently that said that the consumer the average american family is going to see a difference of a $1000.00 additional cost for the average american family per year and that was with these newest tariffs. before that it was only $600.00 but i'm saying only as if it's nothing because $600.00 is $600.00 an hour 1000 right it's not as if it's going to get fixed and it's not it's really not and we've heard this time and time again from experts and analysts there's there's no trade deal and it's interesting too when you say the number was a 1000 because when you think about it you know you see reporters report this is americans get a $400.00 emergency happens a lot of americans can't pay for it and so when you suddenly an extra $1000.00 and everything that's a big number for people and it's a lot because we're at the end of the getting to the end of the year we're in that last quarter and there is again the enough to sort of make up between now and

christmas or you know people are going to buy less because they don't know what's going to happen you know any of us who are if you're around in our age you've already lived probably or adult life through one maybe 2. all right oh yes i remember. so ok and i already thought about it it was like i'm not going to travel actually i'm not going to. save 30 monday where you can because you just don't know where everything's going to go let me ask you if when you were there did you see impacts of the trade when you were in china and are you more or less confident from what you heard there that there will be an end to it even before the election less confident less confident after being there i sat down actually with 2 manufacturers a big leading manufacturer of businesses who had they were in hong kong but they had a lot of their manufacturing businesses in mainland china and i asked them really what their hopes were and some of that i hadn't been affecting it yet but again these were garment and apparel industries or sales so they're looking to see more

of an effect next year they obviously are saying that it's affected their sales a little bit in the sense that because it's costing more they're going to have to try to take up most of the costs * for these 1st terrorists but with these next set of terrorists. just implementers of time for 1st and you can watch this on my special tomorrow where i sit down with these manufacturers and they really are hopeful that at least a partial deal will be made but they also now understand the tariff is something that will always exist now going forward china and these new tariffs they said we won't see it hit us hard because now we know what to expect we're prepared for more tariffs but again now they're getting used to these terrorists being there all the time and not being removed there's always going to be some sort of terror so they're trying to prepare ahead of time and a lot of them are moving to some digital platforms trying to change their way of manufacturing also with their business model but just certain developments and how they manufacture and garments especially so that they're not affected so much by

this trade or because there's so many roles i mean if anyone who's ever who's watching you know has ever worked on that side of the apparel industry i have worked somewhere and there were no people who have it's very complicated and these rules i think people don't understand and take your average person's taxes in the us and just like multiply it by a 1000 and that's how complicated these things are and that's where it's hard for a consumer and this is where clothing is going to be now affected with these new tariffs and there are more to come on december 15th so i got to catch it before we finish up you were also in the wall ways. china which is you know the biggest. one the biggest retailer in his world for technology and phones and if you've been covering this topic a long time where your expert expectations of going into their headquarters that what was it like well i think that's something that's interesting that hasn't been really said much is that there's really

a cultural difference here too when you go into mainland china to a place like wal ways to talk on giant that's grown globally by so much and as often it is looking like going to be a bargaining chip for this trade where i sat down with the v.p. of strategy andrew williamson and will will take you through that tomorrow on the special as well but he gave. some some clarity we asked all the tough questions it was it really was i didn't know what my expectations were really going into it going somewhere like this it was like a facebook or google their campus was amazing it was beautiful while at the same time we learned so much about this the telecom giant and that's caught in the middle of this trade war and has said you know time and have again that they are not a cyber security threat to the united states but it really was interesting just to see the dynamics of that ploy of the business will definitely check out your special tomorrow battlefield market's mood trade wars you can see that there's a lot of truth thank you all we are still growing our. business is

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