We’ve Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes In an Indian Election Campaign

The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has partnered with political communications firm The Ideaz Factory to create “positive campaigns” using deepfakes to reach different linguistic voter bases, reports Nilesh Christopher reports via Motherboard. It marks the debut of deepfakes in election campaigns in India. From the report: On February 7, a day ahead of the Legislative Assembly elections in Delhi, two…

Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Reelection Spells More Frustration For US Tech Giants

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon and Walmart’s problems in India look set to continue after Narendra Modi, the biggest force to embrace the country’s politics in decades, led his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to a historic landslide re-election last week, reaffirming his popularity in the eyes of the world’s largest democracy. The re-election, which gives Modi’s government another…

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Unearthing and Rebuilding

India’s prime minister spurs the excavation of a Buddhist site, a Michigan meditation center rebuilds after a fire, and two reporters jailed in Myanmar win a Pulitzer. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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