Deepfake pictures and videos have suddenly become much more dangerous — and much more prevalent — because Artificial Intelligence can create them easily and cheaply. Here’s a great big headsup, and some ways to identify things you see (and hear) that are not real.
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Welcome to the 73rd episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio. Hearabouts is produced by Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center in collaboration with WFHB. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community, and shared assumptions. This episode is produced by Joanna Kung, Ming Wang, and Belle Chatpunnarangsee. In this episode, we asked Katelyn Wu, Audrey Lee, and Parnasi Bandyopadhyay to share …
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This month on Civic Conversations, we are joined by Kate Cruikshank, Political Papers Specialist for the University Archives at the Herman B. Wells Library. Kate joined us to talk about the 26th Amendment. The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 for all elections, state and federal. Kate shared that the amendment was created after a long debate …
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Welcome to the March edition of Civic Conversations – a monthly podcast collaboration with the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County . In today’s segment, host Jim Allison speaks with Lisa Marie Napoli, director of the Political and Civic Engagement or PACE, at Indiana University. Napoli also founded Voices for Democracy and Civility. The topic for this …
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An Indiana University sports media scholar weighs in on the diplomatic boycott against China in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The United States will not send officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as a protest to China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.” Human rights groups accuse China of detaining more than …
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Welcome to the November edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. Our guest today is former U.S. Congressman Lee Hamilton, who represented Indiana’s 9th district from 1965-1999. Hamilton speaks with host Jim Allison on the current state of our democracy. On the topic of the erosion …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 14th, 2021. Later in the program, we have the October edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. Our guests today are Simone Smith, the winning contestant in the League of Women Voters Brown County’s essay contest on …
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Welcome to the October edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. In today’s podcast, host Jim Allison speaks with Simone Smith, the winning contestant in the League of Women Voters Brown County’s essay contest on redistricting, and Shari Frank, the president of the League of Women …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, April 21st, 2021. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from our public affairs program, Interchange, a show that questions how we understand ourselves. Today’s excerpt comes from last week’s show, “Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan with Kerri Greenidge.” More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, April 15th, 2021. Later in the program, we have the latest edition of Civic Conversations – our podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. Today’s episode covers tribalism with Professor of Political Science Marjorie Hershey at Indiana University. More coming up in today’s feature …
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