There was even pumpkin spice candy corn, a feat of fakery atop fakery that's almost too much to digest.
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Bots spread a lot of fakery during the 244 election.
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"More evidence of fakery and hypocrisy," he wrote on Twitter.
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"More evidence of fakery and hypocrisy," he wrote on Twitter.
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Marketing, for better or worse, is a game of fakery.
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I have no time for Hollywood fakery, but you I love, .
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Possibly. This season has had a lot of accusations of fakery.
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Ironically, foes of vaping fans have their own suspicions of fakery.
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Nissan and Subaru, both car firms, have admitted to similar fakery.
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You can easily fall over the edge into pretentiousness or fakery.
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But in real life, that fakery sometimes takes a tangible form.
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So, in other words, say hello to yet another layer of fakery.
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Users quickly began suggesting replacements for a new "torchbearer" for AI fakery.
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For some, that means fetishizing the rampant fakery of the internet itself.
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But simultaneous advances in chemistry also facilitated the detection of such fakery.
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Once the gang cracks the code, they expose the trickster for his fakery.
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MediFor started in 2016 when the agency saw the fakery game leveling up.
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It is not always so easy to determine the source of fakery, though.
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But many customers who run up against the fakery problem end up unhappy.
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The technique is the same: Keep reality at a distance through hyperactive fakery.
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Viral fakery can feed on deeply held beliefs, especially of a political nature.
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Now, two women — and later a third — claim that there's more fakery to come.
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And in the end, isn't the fakery the thing that actually makes her real?
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THERE is often more fakery than truth in a tweet from President Donald Trump.
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With fakery ruled out, they tested her blood and treated her depression with medication.
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Until recently such fakery had required hundreds of images to conjure a convincing clip.
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A succession of techniques he invented to spot fakery were quickly pressed into use.
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Little by little, the effects of this online fakery seeped into the real world.
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But too much self-flagellation and genuflection can look foolish and smack of fakery.
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The power and peril of deepfakes is that they make fakery cheaper than ever before.
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The consequences of cheap, widespread fakery are likely to be profound, albeit slow to unfold.
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Online fakery runs wide and deep, but you don't need me to tell you that.
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Simultaneously, their fakery highlights the contours of your down-to-earth character and virtuous ordinariness.
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How can anyone ever trust democracy when democratic elections are polluted by such digital fakery?
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A better question might be the likely scale of online fakery a decade from now.
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Employees and customers will eventually always see through fakery during our age of "hypertransparency," he added.
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" In a follow up statement, Freeman's lawyer Robert Schwartz said CNN story was "built on fakery.
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It took the full-immersion fakery of Avatar in 2009 to embolden him into following through.
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You would not expect to find such obvious fakery at a suburban shopping mall in Canada.
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His act is a tacit rebuke of the lacquered fakery of our Instagrammed, brand-conscious lives.
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For now, allegations of fakery are keeping Eberhard Zangger's Bronze Age Collapse theory in the news.
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Scams and fakery were not just ascendant this decade — they were often the dominant story line.
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It was fakery dished out by railroad barons, paid scientists and P.R. men to credulous reporters.
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It's easy to see these stories as symptomatic of our general miasma of fakery and doubt.
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And so what some people could see as fakery becomes something we can actually learn from.
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In the real world of 2020, we're witnessing an inversion of the top-down fakery of 1984.
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We've reached out to Cavalli as well as CamSoda for a statement on the allegations of fakery.
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And his story is becoming a modern parable about the dangers of hubris and limits of fakery.
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The nerd in me wants a bit more rigor, a bit more plausibility underneath the exuberant fakery.
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According to YouTube, this new verification system is needed to curb a different kind of unfriendliness: fakery.
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So as Natasha Lomas notes, a more subtle form of political fakery will still be allowed. 2.
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Citron warns that just the concept of high-quality AI fakery may damage our concept of truth.
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GANs-produced fakery can be fun — if you know what you're looking at — and potentially big business.
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Corporations need to communicate directly with their customers, the media and the public at-large to debunk fakery.
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By the time the fakery was exposed, Theranos had already opened 40 "wellness centers" in Arizona Walgreens pharmacies.
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The hardest stage is to overcome the fakery, and I can't associate with people while I'm doing that.
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" YouTuber: RussianvidsNewChannel Video Title: "Space X "CRS-8 Rocket Landing On A Droneship" Fakery Makes NASA Look Legit!
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As the pair battle, the image only gets more convincing — the A.I. trying to detect fakery always loses.
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Iowa wants to judge a candidate's handshake, glimpse her treatment of staff, nab him in moments of fakery.
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Given such head-fakery, the Democrats' failure to convince seemingly any Republicans of Trump's wrongdoing hardly seems surprising.
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And some of this fakery is clearly a conscious decision; it is historical reconstruction as performed by Jeff Koons.
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In the short term, the actual technology of AI fakery might be less of a threat than its perception.
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And mushrooming fakery could give candidates cover to call baloney on a video or audio clip that's actually real.
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Clearly, there is going to be a running battle between AI fakery and image authentication for decades to come.
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There's a bit of fakery going on with the Senate healthcare bill that's due for a vote this week.
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And though symbols of nurturing are discernible in nearly every work, they are undermined with fakery and internal contradictions.
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Women from across the left-wing spectrum — from socialism to socialism-lite — use feminism fakery to build their careers.
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It's a false note of objective judgment that affirms the accuser's supposed "authenticity" or "ordinariness" against someone else's fakery.
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" It is a habit "unconstrained by a concern with truth" whose essence is "not of falsity but of fakery.
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It's difficult to tell, though, how much of this behavior is sentience, and how much is fakery though programming.
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Neither Hogue nor Harris think that exposing celebrity accounts' supposed fakery is a good use of an analytics tool.
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From Trump to Theranos, the main story line of the 2010s was the ascendance of scammers, hucksters and fakery.
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With its vertiginous spiral of fakery, the invented but plausible scene captures the essence of Russia's hybrid onslaught against Ukraine.
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"There's something really disturbing about a work of fakery meant to tarnish an entire class of people," I wrote then.
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On-air, Trump seemed to be explicit that this wasn't TV fakery: The money he was giving was his own.
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If the changes to the Rules are any indication, between 2009 and 2010, a scourge of fakery had descended upon Twitter.
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No matter the platform—Amazon, TripAdvisor, Yelp, or another—no matter the subject, where user reviews are public, fakery usually follows.
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A first step towards fighting fakery and imitation would be to recognise indigenous designs as a form of intellectual property (IP).
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I reached out to Elizabeth Greenwood, the author of Playing Dead, a fascinating book that examines death fakery of all kinds.
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And Matt soon had to open a new vein of fakery; her physical closeness was really starting to mess with him.
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There's a science to the art of this particular fakery, the way the brain builds a gestalt world around selected details.
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And the seemingly unending influx of fakery could plant enough suspicion and cynicism to throw an otherwise legitimate election into question.
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When we scratch the surface of these ostensibly grassroots efforts, we often find thinly disguised fakery: astroturfing operations created by corporations.
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An educational effort by government, schools, civil society groups and the media to help people distinguish facts from fakery might help.
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The political success of Trump's assault on the press depends on his conflation of mistakes with dishonesty, of fallibility with fakery.
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Hated: Facetune While body positive marketing had its heyday, the rise of Instagram culture ushered in a new kind of fakery.
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But people tracking the spread of fakery say it remains a problem, especially inside closed groups like those popular on Facebook.
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With all the digital fakery out there, it's sometimes easy to forget how much skill goes into steadicam work behind-the-scenes.
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Unfortunately, in a field of fakery, paranormal photographs are some of the most easily disproven pieces of evidence of the other side.
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After the fire, however, he tells me that the contrivance of his work, even its fakery, seemed hugely more apparent to him.
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THEN THEY GOT ALL THEIR IMPS TO PLAY PRETEND CHEER LIKE A BUNCH OF IDIOT HYENAS GETTING OFF ON FAKERY - COMPLETE GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And if they were caught, it allowed them to claim that it was a case of production error rather than outright fakery.
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Jonathan Albright, a researcher at Columbia University focusing on misinformation, described New York's case as a breakthrough in tackling social media fakery.
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Mr. Pai has acknowledged the problem and recently told Congress the FCC was planning to improve its comments system to ward off fakery.
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The fakery also seems to be paying off for many institutions, which may prefer highlighting their supposed prestige to casting light on missteps.
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Adam Padilla, the Co-Founder and Director of Branding for BrandFire, is responsible for the latest bit of fakery to flood the internet.
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But as he was working on the book the world turned, and he realized that fakery is no longer just a classroom sport.
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Deception, misdirection, fabrication and fakery are the tricks of her trade, and there's plenty of all that in LET ME LIE (Berkley, $26).
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In ahegao, the idea is that the experience is beyond fakery: she's cumming so hard that she's lost all control of her face.
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"We've almost become used to this kind of internet subterfuge, and games, the fakery that you see all across the internet," Hooper said.
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It isn't just the substance of daily news that unmoors you, but also the speed and volume and oversaturated fakery of it all.
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He used to try to avoid mentioning the misinformation when trying to debunk it, but now he confronts the fakery with an inoculation message.
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As an artist, Baker is the real deal in fakery, where the end result is something like Andy Warhol meets Jordan meets Francesco Vezzoli.
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It's hoping to ride the surge in awareness around social media fakery — putting the new funding towards sales and marketing, plus some product dev.
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Yes, Google search should get better at avoiding obvious fakery, or creating a faux-neutral system that presents conspiracy theories next to hard reporting.
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"There are so many layers of fakery you get lost," said Ms. Aro, who was awarded the Finnish Grand Prize for Journalism in March.
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WASHINGTON — Executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google pledged to Congress this week to do more to prevent the fakery that has polluted their sites.
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But he also recognizes that the biggest problem with news on Facebook isn't outright fakery so much as stories that are distorted or sensationalistic.
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Today, of course, Facebook and other free social platforms make it easier for individuals and organized groups to spread misinformation and fakery to incite upheaval.
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And nearly all of his Facebook friends, his family photographs, his alma mater and even his employer are in Macedonia, a center for internet fakery.
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In the past two years, hobbyists, academics, and entrepreneurs have made AI fakery much more convincing, and deepfakes have become a tool of online harassment.
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But the commander-in-chief of fakery remains in place, still occupying the bully pulpit, still with millions of followers who wish to believe him.
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In the end they give the same result, but as a teacher I guess I prefer the first one, just because it doesn't require any fakery.
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Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer, said in the briefing that the company was concerned not only about false facts but also other kinds of fakery.
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Today dozens of news outlets routinely fact-check the candidates and much else online, but the endeavor has proved largely ineffective against a tide of fakery.
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Instead, what happened was that each side weaponized fact-checking, taunting the other for wallowing in lies without acknowledging its own part in all the fakery.
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There's something you need to know: There is reason to believe that this clip is not fanfare and fakery as far as her behavior is concerned.
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The companies now interested in finding solutions to AI-enabled fakery have have also been pushing the frontiers of the technology for their own commercial purposes.
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People recently began passing it around online without checking the date, a few media outlets picked it up and, bam, a celestial bit of fakery was born.
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Suspicion of fakery in Juul's marketing campaign, and among purported vaping supporters, emerged from Allem's 21998 study and a long-standing, merited distrust of the tobacco industry.
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None of this is to say that the problem of AI fakery is solved, or that the issue doesn't need serious scrutiny over the years to come.
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It's a quiet but ultimately fitting end for the video app, which sold itself as a beacon of "realness" hellbent on disrupting the fakery of social media.
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What is more, they are unlikely to do much to stem the flow of disinformation so long as there remains an audience of readers hungry for fakery.
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Holders of intellectual-property rights argue that fakery discourages innovation, diddles the taxman and funds terrorism (though hard evidence of links between terrorists and counterfeiters is elusive).
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He'd also neglected to mention another act of fakery: posing as his own mother, he sent Linda an e-mail urging her not to end the affair.
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In a response filed in court Tuesday, Ebbers attorney Graham Carner said the alleged discrepancies can be explained by factors that have nothing to do with fakery.
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Ryan's fakery may have fooled his naive constituents — by which I mean practically the whole Beltway pundit class — but never fooled anyone who could do the math.
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In an era of sleek, seamless technology, the market for handmade, ticktocking, wind-up old gizmos is bound to blow up, and where there's demand, there's fakery.
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Here experts in lab coats squint at handbags and shoes, looking for errant stitching or the wrong color of brass hardware: anything that might signal sophisticated fakery.
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This 2003 film stars Hayden Christensen as Glass and Peter Sarsgaard as Charles Lane, the New Republic editor who fired him after realizing the extent of Glass' fakery.
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EBay has been dealing with counterfeiters since its early days, and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is regularly accused of enabling fakery in its Taobao and Tmall marketplaces.
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Tyler Barriss, a prolific and seemingly unremorseful repeat swatter and bomb hoaxer whose fakery got a man killed in 2017, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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And if these fakery tools helped birth crowds of "influencers" who then, in turn, attracted more users to the platform, that could be even seen as a perk.
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You might think that all the attention to the humanness of fakery — to the regularity and reliability of surface-level inauthenticity — would make everyone seem shallow and false.
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Believing that "the shelves are crowded with perfumes," he declared at the outset of "Song of Myself" that he would not be seduced by such finery and fakery.
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You maintain that your form of fakery is better than the straight-out inventions of others, because your ratings are based on things that clients have actually said.
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We live our lives on technologies that sow distrust and fakery, that admit little room for nuance and complication, that slice us up into ignorant and bleating tribes.
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I remember visiting the Masonic Hall on 23rd Street in Manhattan, and the tour guide (a Mason) pointing out that all the grand architectural flourishes were fancy fakery.
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This is perhaps best exemplified by the rise of so-called deepfakes, AI fakery that was originally used to swap celebrities' faces onto the bodies of adult film actresses.
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Recently, two images made the rounds that underscore the huge advances machine learning has made — and show why we're in for a new age of mischief and online fakery.
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Memes picturing the fakery were shared millions of times, as were videos of children imitating his exaggerated response in parks and stadiums as far apart as Mexico and Scotland.
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Tens of thousands of sham products have appeared on Amazon over the last two years — a rash of counterfeiting amid a growing, trillion-dollar global business of retail fakery.
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Mr. Relotius's fakery was revealed after the magazine printed a story about an Arizona militia group and a caravan of migrants hoping to cross the Mexico-United States border.
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"Concocting fake news to attract eyeballs is a habitual trick of America's New York Times, and this newspaper suffered a crisis of credibility for its fakery," the statement said.
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As Mr. Trump takes office this week, the beneficiary of at least a modest electoral boost from a flood of fakery, Mr. Harris and his ersatz-news website, ChristianTimesNewspaper.
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" In Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions: Printmaking in the Renaissance, the Blanton tackles tricky questions of authenticity, fakery, and how history and context shape our thinking about "originals" and "copies.
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As for Amazon's review problem, which goes far past tech products, the fakery can happen a few different ways: Some of the reviews are artificially generated or repeated, as Which?
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But voters have been besieged by a flurry of social media fakery that Macedonian and Western officials say is directed by Russian-backed groups and aimed at depressing the vote.
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To this point, it's been largely about post-production fakery, whereas the novelty in recent times has been about how good phones have become at doing such things on the fly.
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Nowadays, in a world of sponsored Instagram posts, dubious "Hiddleswift"-style celebrity allegiances, and the shameless fakery of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, this just seems like a basic PR move.
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Despite being produced in 1929, it tapped into the eye as an unparalleled locus of pain — physical as well as psychological — and its power remains unequalled by any Hollywood fakery since.
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The space once belonged to another lover of fakery — the impish artist Gino De Dominicis, who faked his own death in 1969 — but today it is strewn with Colantonio's current projects.
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Even so, society needs reporters like Hersh — skeptics who take nothing on trust and who go to exhaustive lengths to dig beneath the thick veneer of gloss, dross, fakery and spin.
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When you lose Charles Barkley, you've lost Black America Yet now we're in an era when we're so disturbed about so much real racism our tolerance for fakery is getting thin.
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" As for the cigarette, Getz says that it may have been part of the "demented" fakery: "We're not going to run from the idea that this was a staged murder scene.
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Its results aren't perfect, but they're created completely automatically, and it's just a small hint of what's to come as artificial intelligence opens a new world of image, audio, and video fakery.
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Yesterday, a trio of lawmakers sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, asking him to assess the threat posed to national security by this new form of fakery.
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The proliferation of plant fakery might also have something to do with the popularity of plants that aren't artificial, but can sometimes appear to be — stuff like succulents, cacti, and rubber plants.
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Both former stunt coordinators, they masterminded a ground-level approach to fight scenes in John Wick that removed a lot of the computer-generated fakery and emphasized a hand-to-hand urgency.
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Mr. Hoffman said he had no idea that political operatives whose work he had financed had used fakery on Facebook and Twitter in the special Senate election a year ago in Alabama.
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Some companies rely on human investigators to suss out fake or inflated accounts, while others use proprietary programs designed to spot signs of fakery, but it's largely a cat and mouse game.
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And that has provoked a sharp partisan divide on the policies the big platforms should pursue, with Democrats urging a hard line against fakery while many Republicans warn against censoring online speech.
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But "fakery" might mean the computer on that desk isn't an iMac—and the entertainment center won't be sporting a real TV. This leads me to an offbeat question: Who makes those?
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As awe-inspiring as this digital deep-fakery is, though, it does have a flaw: photorealistic talking animals, it turns out, are nowhere near as charming or as expressive as stylised talking animals.
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Writing under the name Samri Frikell, he declared in his book Spirit Mediums Exposed (1930): I am the foe of fakery, of charlatanism, of hoodwinkers, of wonder-mongers, of miracle pretenders — of BUNK.
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While climate change deniers misrepresented the content of the emails on websites, and spread rumours that they revealed fakery by climate scientists, several thorough investigations subsequently showed these allegations to be completely false.
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In this era of fakery and propaganda, where everything you encounter online comes to you through a partisan fog, it can sometimes seem as if all that's connected to the internet turns sour.
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The fakery may have added only modestly to the din of genuine American voices in the pre-election melee, but it helped fuel a fire of anger and suspicion in a polarized country.
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Increasingly, these electronics are less the window dressing and more the medium from which we view the fakery—whether on television or via a website, the marketing is increasingly happening through a screen.
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But in Trump the element of sadistic cruelty in his personality (mocking the disabled, for example), and the sheer gall of his fakery, make of him a malignant, rather than a benign, bullshit artist.
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Others don't care because they see Trump as a magician slicing his assistant in two and then putting her back together: It might be fakery, but who cares when you're having so much fun?
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Starbucks fell victim to fakery this month when tweets advertising "Dreamer Day", in which the coffee chain would supposedly give out free frappuccinos to undocumented migrants in the US, spread at lightning speed online.
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While Periscope may have turned a blind eye to the spam and fakery for some time, its decision to finally crack down on fake engagement arrives only a few months after Instagram did the same.
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This world of fakery, marred nature, and self-pleasuring is an exposé of the artificial environments many people increasingly inhabit on vacation, places stripped of their natural beauty with a homogenous "party town" atmosphere superimposed.
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And all over the internet, general fakery abounds — there are millions of fake followers on Twitter and Facebook, fake rehab centers being touted on Google and even fake review sites to sell you a mattress.
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But in the wake of the election and the wave of concern over political hacking, fake news and the dark side of social networking, it illustrated why the landscape of fakery will only darken further.
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For all his literary and oratorical gifts, he didn't coin the kinds of phrases that stick with repetition, as if his distaste for politics generally—the schmoozing, the fakery—extended to the fashioning of slogans.
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But in order to get there, they have to be well-liked, and considered to be genuine, and the road to the finish is paved with hilarious missteps, outright fakery, and real moments of sweetness.
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SAN DIEGO — The last line of defense against the torrent of half-truths, untruths and outright fakery that make up so much of the modern internet is in a downscale strip mall near the beach.
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And all over the internet, general fakery abounds — there are millions of fake followers on Twitter and Facebook, fake rehab centers being touted on Google, and even fake review sites to sell you a mattress.
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The big tech companies have announced aggressive steps to keep trolls, bots and online fakery from marring another presidential election — from Facebook's removal of billions of fake accounts to Twitter's spurning of all political ads.
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"Many folks I knew from tea party days are the targets of a good portion of fakery, and that helps me determine ways to reach them beyond merely telling them a thing is fake," she said.
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" Why it matters: "The fakery may have added only modestly to the din of genuine American voices in the pre-election melee, but it helped fuel a fire of anger and suspicion in a polarized country.
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But the episode has sparked fears that the fraudulent Russian operations on social media could be imitated widely by American political operatives and further undermine voters' ability to sort truth from fakery as they choose candidates.
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As has become common in the aftermath of an event with unidentified victims, social media has been a tangled web of users expressing legitimate concern for missing loved ones and pranksters polluting social streams with fakery.
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Instead of grappling with that sort of subtle political fakery, Facebook is focusing on quick PR wins — around the most obviously inauthentic stuff where it won't risk accusations of partisan bias if it pulls bogus content.
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Fact-checking will devote more time to videos and pictures as digital fakery becomes widespread; but such services can only ever be reactive, sending the truth panting after a lie that is already halfway across the world.
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Among those who call themselves "believers" and are thus at least technically not nihilists, one frequently finds an obsession with apocalypse, a gleeful anticipation of the living end that will destroy the inherent fakery of all things.
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"More and more people each year are coming to LA craving authentic community in a landscape that has such a reputation for fakery," says Shiva Baum, a music producer and Head of Music Programming at Bhakti Fest.
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It so deftly blended artifice and reality — for so many people, across so many issues, in so many places — that it is impossible, now, for any of us to tell where reality and fakery begin and end.
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But that kind of fakery couldn't hold; as the decade progressed and platforms like Twitter shifted from novel experiences into assumed foundations for business, media, and culture, the nature of what we put into the platforms also changed.
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But researchers from New York University's Tandon School of Engineering are starting to develop strategies that make it easier to tell if a photo has been altered, opening up a potential new front in the war on fakery.
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The revelation that tech-savvy Democrats had used fakery in the race was galling for fellow party members, who have been vocal in denouncing such tactics when they were used by Russia to boost President Trump's election campaign.
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What you can say is that she's a real life example of "expectations versus reality," just like the photos she posts, which look very different when zoomed out on than they do cropped, showing the messiness and fakery .
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The actor's trade is always a deception, creating the appearance of authenticity, and in fictional work on stage or in film or television we comfortably succumb to this fakery without fear of losing our sense of the factual world.
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But not all of that attention was good, as whisky experts almost immediately caught a whiff of bullshit with subtle notes of fakery when they saw photos of the cork and label of the Devil's Place bottle circulating online.
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Despite Ms. Rosales's penchant for fakery, though, federal authorities say they are confident that the art they seized from her home is all genuine, based on their own analysis, reviews of sale records and the assessment of a Houston art appraiser.
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A close reading of this book should also, however, have the effect of cautioning voters not to let their disgust at such fakery push them to the other extreme, searching, above all, for the candidate who exhibits the most spontaneous persona.
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And more and more as the book goes on, Hindman delves into questions about America's endless appetite for comforting fakery, and how that desire for comfort played out in the post-9/11 era and the runup to the Iraq War.
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Still, it'd be nice if Huawei would stick to advertising its phone based on the strength of what it can actually do — which is probably impressive enough, even without fakery — instead of hiding its capabilities behind marketing smoke and mirrors.
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The researchers based their searches largely on the pages and accounts named in a Russian media account based on interviews with former employees of the Russian company with Kremlin ties, the Internet Research Agency, accused of much of the fakery.
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"Niggas put up a good front, but you can see the zipper," the New York-based MC raps in a weathered voice, deep with contempt but also something resembling amusement for widespread foolishness and fakery: This is America in decline.
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Trump is a Potemkin philanthropist, so much so that a Washington Post reporter, David Fahrenthold, won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing all the fakery in the Trump Foundation, and the attorney general of New York opened an investigation into it.
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Peering at a 2012 version of the Props by IDM site brings up elaborate examples of fakery, including an iPod plugged into a speaker and a selection of fake DVDs with knockoff names like Boy Story, Claws, and American Sky.
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With its fake Paris and fake New York, much of the Las Vegas Strip is a gaudy simulacrum of the rest of the world, and Twitter's city, like much of CES, was another deeper layer of fakery nested within the larger town.
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By simulating the way light rays bounce around, NVIDIA showed that the odd-looking lighting of Buzz Aldrin's space suit—taken by some nitwits as evidence of fakery—really is reflected lunar sunlight and not the lights of a Hollywood film rig.
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As a travel site built on crowdsourced wisdom, where hundreds of millions of ordinary people post reviews and rate businesses, TripAdvisor is susceptible to fakery meant to inflate the ranking of a so-so restaurant or stain the reputation of a storied hotel.
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Worth noting: Alibaba has long had counterfeiting issues, which are far more common in China than in the U.S., and has provided high-end brands like Maserati, Tiffany and Burberry an exclusive platform called "Luxury Pavillion," where they can better police fakery.
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The myth of photographic objectivity has concealed fakery since the medium's inception, but Ritchin stresses how digital media offer an appropriative and hyper-textual approach to photography that reinvents the authorial image into an evolving investigation among an infinite number of people.
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The fakery was built using Adobe After Effects, a readily available piece of video software, and FakeApp, an artificial intelligence program that made headlines in January when it was used to transplant actor Nicolas Cage's face into several movies in which he hadn't appeared.
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For Bowie, I think, it is only when we clear away all the fakery of social convention, the popery and jiggery-pokery of organized religion and the compulsory happiness that plagues our culture that we can hear the Yes that resounds across his music.
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Aside from her steely nerves, what I like most about Stormy is that she's in on the joke, self-aware enough to delight in the concept of a president who indulges in so much fakery being brought down by an almost self-parodying porn star.
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Because pouring FUD onto an already polarized debate — and seeking to shift what are by nature shifty sands (after all information, misinformation and disinformation can be relative concepts, depending on your personal perspective/prejudices) — makes it hard for any outsider to nail this gelatinous fakery to the wall.
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As noted in David Chapman's Sandow the Magnificent, early physique star Eugen Sandow and his mentor Louis Attila attracted attention to their own strongman routines by exposing the fakery of competitors, calling them out as frauds for using lighter barbells and hollow weights (Sandow may also have used such props, particularly later in his career).
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The "solutions" to our debt problems that have been trotted out this year by both Democrats and Republicans—a return to "pay go" budgeting or a balanced budget amendment—amount to little more than what former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson calls "chest-pounding fakery" because they do little to address the real drivers of our debt.
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It was retweeted hundreds of times, and while I'd love to say no one believed it, it's my sad duty to inform you that there are extremely gullible people on Twitter: To be clear, RL didn't make much of an effort to pass this pathetic fakery off as the truth, and just about everyone who responded got the joke.
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Dramatists put their words and their hearts in their characters' mouths, and, when Jackson and the other actresses raise their hands, we want to raise ours, too, but in praise of Albee, who, as a boy in the gilt-edged fakery of his adoptive home, learned the power of bearing witness to the truth, and then speaking it. ♦
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The Internet wasn't meant to let despots restrict information, but instead of getting beat, they started playing the game better than anyone: by sharing just as the rest of us were, overwhelming the citizenry with content, content, content until what was real and where all the fakery was coming was nearly impossible for anyone to sort out.
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Screenshot: Chloe Condon (Twitter)The tables turned big time on a supposed software developer posting under the identity "Tee Medlin" on Friday after he sent an Instagram post accusing Microsoft senior cloud developer advocate Chloe Condon of stalking him at a conference—something that never occurred—and other social media users quickly discovered that much of Medlin's online persona reeks of plagiarism and fakery.
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Still, with Eleanor and Frank as outsized, strong personalities, Gervais playing his usual flaccid-balloon character as the butt of all the jokes (at one point, he describes his body as "25 percent fat, more than some snacks"), and the complicated comic business of the radio-station fakery to keep all the pieces moving, Special Correspondents has everything it needs for some lively humor.
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Convincing fakery will extend to targeted online scams, the report says: Social engineering — the practice of tricking someone into giving up valuable information by using specific information about that person — will become much easier with AI. "Right now, the one saving grace is that the sheer volume of information [about a person] makes it very difficult to do anything with it at scale," Scharre said.
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""We just talked for like 15, 20 minutes and I have to say he has just been so real and so encouraging and I have to call it out because if you guys only knew half of the stuff and the things that happen and just the fakery behind the scenes in everything, not just YouTube and with beauty influencers, or anything like that.
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Per CNN, Egyptian officials are alternately describing Hvid's shoot as a violation of public morality—which the U.S. State Department describes as one of the many ways visitors can attract the very undesirable attention of Egyptian law enforcement—or the product of fakery, since security around the monuments is allegedly too tight:Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani called it a violation of public morality, and said the incident and the video will be investigated by the attorney general.
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