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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with iHeart Radio. And

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Speaker 1: how the tech are you. It's time for the tech

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Speaker 1: news for Thursday, August twenty two. Here in the United States,

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Speaker 1: we are headed toward another election. This one is a

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Speaker 1: mid term election. That means that the president is not

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Speaker 1: up for re election, but a lot of folks in

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Speaker 1: Congress and in local positions around the US are It

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Speaker 1: also means that there is a heightened concern about the

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Speaker 1: spread of misinformation online. And you know, that's been an

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Speaker 1: issue for years, but it really came under the spotlight

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Speaker 1: in and it has stayed in the spotlight ever since,

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Speaker 1: hogging center stage. Now to that end, in twenty twenty, Facebook,

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Speaker 1: the platform and actually the company itself, because the company

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Speaker 1: it took the significant step of banning new political ads

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Speaker 1: from being published in the week leading up to the election.

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Speaker 1: Now Meta is going to do the same thing for

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Speaker 1: the US mid terms this year. And if you listened

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Speaker 1: to Tuesday's episode this week, you know that there was

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Speaker 1: a watchdog group that called out Meta for failing to

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Speaker 1: follow its own content moderation policies on Facebook. In Brazil,

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Speaker 1: the group had submitted several ads purposefully containing misinformation within them,

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Speaker 1: and Facebook accepted all of those ads. Now, it's true

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Speaker 1: that in English speaking countries, Facebook's content moderation is, you know,

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Speaker 1: slightly less incompetent. But rather than deal with the flood

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Speaker 1: of possible attack ads and misinformation campaigns, Facebook is gonna

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Speaker 1: wash its hands of the whole business, at least for

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Speaker 1: the week leading up to the election itself. It remains

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Speaker 1: to be seen if Facebook will copy exactly what it

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Speaker 1: a temporary band that lasted a week, Facebook actually kept

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Speaker 1: that ban on political ads in place all the way

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Speaker 1: for six months. Pretty sure that's not gonna happen this year,

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Speaker 1: but maybe it will. TikTok is taking a similar approach

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Speaker 1: a band that restricts influencers from posting paid political content.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty much been the case from day one. The

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Speaker 1: company has never accepted political ads. But it does start

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Speaker 1: to get tricky when you understand that TikTok influencers aren't

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Speaker 1: to do a full episode on how various influencers make

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Speaker 1: it's never as straightforward as you might imagine. Anyway, TikTok

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Speaker 1: isn't banning political content outright. You can still post a

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Speaker 1: video where you express your political beliefs or where you

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Speaker 1: critique a politician or policy or whatever, so long as

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Speaker 1: you don't break the other rules. For instance, if your

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Speaker 1: video spreads misinformation, or it's meant to incite violence, or

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Speaker 1: it turns out that you were paid to put that

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Speaker 1: The video is likely going to get deleted or at

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Speaker 1: an account before too long. TikTok says it will make

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Speaker 1: You know, it's making sure that people know what they're

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Speaker 1: getting into, especially people who might be new to TikTok,

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Speaker 1: and you know they're they're taking sponsorship deals maybe they

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Speaker 1: aren't aware of the ban on political content when it

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Speaker 1: I do think they are steps in the right direction,

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Speaker 1: make those who are are determined to spread misinformation to

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Speaker 1: just find new ways to do it. Amazon is reportedly

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Speaker 1: though I I don't. I don't draw it as close

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Speaker 1: Amazon's version is meant to let users post short videos detailing,

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Speaker 1: product that's found on Amazon's store. So let's say you

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that Amazon is looking into.

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Speaker 1: The feature right now is called Inspire, and Amazon is

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Speaker 1: are testing the waters and trying to tap into the

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Speaker 1: appeal of TikTok like presentations. Tech Crunch has made available

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Speaker 1: a tool designed to see if your Android device is

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Speaker 1: listed on a database indicating that spyware is installed on

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Speaker 1: that device. All right, I'm going to back up a

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Speaker 1: little bit. So earlier this year, tech Crunch received a

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Speaker 1: large amount of data that came from US spyware groups

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Speaker 1: internal servers, and the information contains a list of all

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Speaker 1: the Android devices that have been infected by the Truth

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Speaker 1: Spy spyware and its network of spyware that includes other

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Speaker 1: lots of other spyware apps, tons of them. And these

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Speaker 1: like log activity and track the device. And obviously there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of nefarious reasons someone might be using spyware.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of any like legit reasons for using it,

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Speaker 1: but there are a lot of bad ones. And one

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Speaker 1: uh that tech Crunch pointed out that is particularly scary

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Speaker 1: and of real concern is that a stalker might attempt

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Speaker 1: keep tabs on that target. That is terrifying, y'all, and

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Speaker 1: it's all too real. We have seen instances of this.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it not just with things like apps and

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Speaker 1: air tags. Right. So tech Crunch has now create a

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Speaker 1: tool that makes it possible for Android device owners to

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Speaker 1: check and see if their own device shows up in

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Speaker 1: that list that tech Crunch received, which led up to

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Speaker 1: all the devices that had been infected by these various

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Speaker 1: tool is located at tech crunch dot com slash pages

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Speaker 1: Slash the Truth Spy Dash Investigation. Now, if you go

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Speaker 1: steps of removing spywear from your device. Now that crunch

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Speaker 1: because it is not always possible to avoid getting hit

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Speaker 1: that can really improve your chances of staying safe. But again,

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Speaker 1: no shade thrown on people who are affected by this stuff.

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Speaker 1: It can be easy to fall victim to it, and sometimes,

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Speaker 1: like I said, unavoidable. Reuter's reports that major financial institutions

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Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia. The courts have sentenced a woman named

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