The country has lost a war hero, statesman, and patriot who lived his life in service to his country. Senator John McCain, has died at the age of 81 after a year long battle with brain cancer. He will lie in state at the US Capitol, becoming just the 31st person receive the honor.  Ginger Gibson, political reporter for Reuters, joins us to talk about John McCain’s love of country, his political legacy, and how the party changes now that he has passed. 

Next, fake news has had its moment and now it’s time for Fake News 2.0.  Industrial- scale creators of fake news are becoming increasingly savvy in their efforts to avoid being caught by new web detection tools and defensive AI. Sara Fischer, media reporter for Axios, joins us to talk about how the tactics that bad actors are using have changed and new technologies that they are taking advantage of.

Finally, one company is trying to turn deepfake technology into a new business model. Deepfakes are a new image-manipulation technology where artificial intelligence learns to mimic based on the data given to it, whether it be photos or videos.  In this case, a porn company is letting its subscribers put themselves into adult videos with deepfake tech. Matt Binder, reporter for Mashable, joins us to talk about whether this new business model it about to take off.

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