Dr. Walter Scheirer, Notre Dame computer science professor and author of the new book "A History of Fake Things on the Internet," joins LOG OFF to talk deepfakes, artificial intelligence, hacking, the longer-than-you-realized history of memes, and whether we should actually be scared about all this fake stuff.

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