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Podcast: Deepfaked Celeb Scam Ads Are All Over YouTube

This week we've got deepfaked celebrities; bizarre FOIA responses; and hackers popping trains.
Left to right: Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox, Sam Cole.
Image: 404 Media.

Jason decided to publish our first story minutes before recording, so here is some hot off the presses material. That piece was about scam ads on YouTube involving deepfaked celebrities. After the break, Sam discussed a very bizarre FOIA response from Texas. Then in the subscribers-only section, Jason tells the long and very entertaining saga of the Polish hackers who fixed a bunch of trains, and faced legal threats in response.

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