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If you are going to start using deepfakes as part of your campaign you first want to make couple bad ones so people feel good about themselves and trust their ability to spot the fake. Then start drip feeding the actual good material.

Same tactics as with what Internet at large nowdays calls "trolls". The onces that you spot were probably ment to be spotted, so you lower your guard against the actual propaganda that isn't as obvious.



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