Focal Point with Andy Stumpf and Mike Glover

Today on Focal Point, Andy Stumpf and Mike Glover discuss deepfake technology, which can be used to manipulate videos and fool viewers into thinking they are watching things that never actually happened.

Will regulating them and passing legislation outlawing certain types of deepfakes have a harmful effect on free speech?

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Today on Focal Point, Andy Stumpf and Mike Glover discuss the censorship controversies involving X and Elon Musk and the government of Brazil, as well as Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and the federal government.

From THE NATIONAL REVIEW:

A panel of judges on Brazil’s supreme court upheld a ruling by Justice Alexandre de Moraes that instituted a total ban on the social-media site X. Under the terms of the order, internet service providers in Brazil cannot act as a conduit for X’s traffic, app stores in Brazil are obliged to delete the X app from their catalogues, and the use of VPNs or other traffic rerouting tools to circumvent the prohibition carries a fine of nearly $9,000 per day. The proximate cause of Brazil’s ban was that X’s owner, Elon Musk, had refused to comply with a court order requiring him to remove certain accounts that had been accused of spreading “misinformation.” 

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Today on Focal Point, Mike Glover and Andy Stumpf discuss the case surrounding the media company, Tenet. 

From The AP:

“An indictment … alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including well-known personalities Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees to churn out English-language videos that were “often consistent” with the Kremlin’s “interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition” to Russian interests, like its war in Ukraine.

The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t allege any wrongdoing by the influencers, some of whom it says were given false information about the source of the company’s funding. Instead, it accuses two employees of RT, a Russian state media company, of funneling nearly $10 million to a Tennessee-based content creation company for Russia-friendly content.”

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Today on Focal Point, an IRONCLAD Original, Andy Stumpf and Mike Glover discuss proposals to use the U.S. Military and special operators to take on drug cartels in Mexico.

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Recently, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to his home country of Australia after spending years fighting legal charges that initially stemmed from the release of sensitive footage on his site Wikileaks. The videos were provided to him by a former United States Army intelligence analyst, who now goes by Chelsea Manning, in 2010.

The story is similar to the case of former NSA intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who publically disclosed the extent of the agency's global surveillance programs, which often involved cooperation with telecom companies.

Today, on Focal Point, an IRONCLAD Original, Andy Stumpf and Mike Glover discuss these cases, the military and intelligence communities, operational security, and the role that whistleblowers can play in holding institutions accountable.

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On this episode of FOCAL POINT, an IRONCLAD Original, Andy Stumpf and Mike Glover, both former snipers, discuss the assassination attempt against Presidential candidate Donald Trump, the investigation into the shooting, the Secret Service Congressional hearings, conspiracy theories surrounding the shooting, and what can be done to better prevent future acts of violence.

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In this episode of Focal Point, Mike Glover and Andy Stumpf discuss the controversy surrounding accusations of "stolen valor" regarding Tim Walz's military service, the definition of "weapons of war", and what to make of his recent comments regarding the Second Amendment.

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