CNN’s Jake Tapper warns we are entering an era of ‘deepfakes and all kinds of disinformation’

CNN’s Jake Tapper warned Monday that the country will enter “an era of deep fakery and all kinds of misinformation” under President Trump, as he discussed Great technical presence with him inauguration.

“We’re about to enter an era of profound misinformation, and all kinds of misinformation and the extent to which these five gentlemen play or don’t play a role will be key to where the American people are going to be four years from now, in terms of understanding what’s true, and what a lie,” Tapper said before Trump was sworn in.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were among the tech giants. attending the inauguration.

Tapper said those five people “control so much of the information that we receive, so much is in their hands when it comes to determining, tracking or refusing to track what is real and what is not real.”

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper took Tapper’s warning to the world.

“We’re not just talking about us, the United States, we’re talking about the world. Every human being on the planet controls access to information. They’re the gatekeepers in many ways to information for the entire planet,” he said.

CNN’s Van Jones noted the historic nature of the photos featuring the five tech executives, noting that most of them were Democratic Party supporters not too long ago.

“Look, that picture will be historic. I call it the revenge of the nerds. Don’t forget, all four of those gentlemen, four years ago, supported the Democratic Party,” he said.

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“The untold story here is how from four years ago the Democrats had the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives and Silicon Valley all four in the hands of Donald Trump,” Jones said, arguing that the Biden administration’s push has driven them away by not introducing cryptocurrency regulations. and by pushing the idea that all big business is bad.

“Elon Musk was Andrew Yang’s Democrat. But when Joe Biden held his EV summit, he left Elon out. There were so many unforced errors by the Biden administration,” Jones continued. “These four are all our people who were kicked out of our party because we didn’t have access to innovation in the first place from the Biden White House and now we’re paying the price. It’s not just that we lost the White House, the House, the Senate, we lost Silicon Valley in the last four year, and you have no one to blame but us.”

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Zuckerberg announced in particular ended Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking program in early January and said it would use a system similar to X’s community notes.