We kick things off by exploring SpecSavers’ ‘clear as mud’ billboard campaign, discussing how deepfakes are influencing modern warfare and fact-checking Australia’s Prevaricator-in-Chief. Meanwhile, Orwellian professor Mark Satta describes how Vladimir Putin is mirroring the techniques of the original Big Brother from 1984.
Interview links

Mark’s views on Putin and Orwell via The Conversation
Epistemic Tribalism, Epistemic Chaos and Epistemic Exhaustion
George Orwell’s Philosophical Views
The Good, The Bad and The Hilarious links
The SpecSavers billboard campaign
A Zelensky deepfake was quickly defeated. The next one may not be
How to spot fake footage from Ukraine and elsewhere
Scott Morrison claims he’s never lied in public life and that’s actually not the truth, Ellen
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