A key takeaway is Obama’s comment is about deepfakes and needing digital fingerprints. So part of the huge AI and deepfake hype train is to try and get the public on board with their digital ID schemes inbound from the WEF and UN. A tech solution of a watermark or digital fingerprint by the big megacorps would be easily thwarted by using free and open software and staying off their closed source platforms. So they’ll eventually need to control your access to the internet through a digital ID system which was attempted with vaccine passports during Covid-19 and being worked on since ID2020 (Microsoft, GAVI, Rockefeller Foundation, Accenture…), but soundly rejected even in Russia. Consequently, most everything that comes out of Obama’s mouth is misinformation as a long time front man for the globalist elite, and one could argue that his whole persona is a deepfake. But as a long time asset, what he tries to peddle to his followers is a glimpse into what they have in store for the world.
By Allum Bokhari
Barack Obama, who was instrumental in fueling the media’s “misinformation” narrative before he left office, has a new buzzword — “digital fingerprints.”
The former Democrat president wants the origin of digital information such as photos and videos to be clearly traced, to fight the spread of deepfakes.
“That technology’s here now,” said Obama in a discussion with his former advisor David Axelrod on the latter’s CNN podcast. “So, most immediately we’re going to have all the problems we had with misinformation before, [but] this next election cycle will be worse.”
“”And the need for us, for the general public, I think to be more discriminating consumers of news and information, the need for us to over time develop technologies to create watermarks or digital fingerprints so we know what is true and what is not true.”
The idea of fighting “misinformation” by tracing the origin of digital info is not new. A coalition of tech and media companies led by Microsoft is already trying to make this technology the industry standard, as is a coalition with similar goals led by Adobe.
Before he left office, President Obama helped spark the media panic over “fake news” — later rebranded as “misinformation” — that was adopted by the media, NGOs, and tech companies as a pretext to suppress conservative content.
Hours before election day 2016, the Democrat president was giving interviews to the media about the dangers of “fake news,” and in the weeks following the election of Donald Trump, used public appearances to talk about the problem of “misinformation.”
Prior to this, the topic was not discussed widely in the media. Afterwards, it was everywhere. And by 2020, it was a key part of the media and tech industry’s efforts to interfere in the election.