Thread: A viral clip of Donald Trump Jr saying on his Triggered podcast that "the US should have been sending weapons to Russia" instead of Ukraine is AI-generated and fake.

Worryingly, the fake AI audio sounds near identical to Don Jr's real voice.

Let's see how we can verify that it's fake.

Marxists have sometimes been good at critiquing capitalism, but they’ve never offered a better alternative. The Soviet Union was such a disaster largely because the Bolsheviks seized power without a clear idea of how to create socialism or even a clear idea of what socialism would look like.

I’ve been reading Renée DiResta’s @noupside.bsky.social book Invisible Rulers which talks about how various interests use social media to influence different audiences. I learned a YouTube personality named MrBeast may soon be a billionaire. I’m shocked because I had never heard of this guy.

For the past month, I’ve been reading about the French Revolution. It’s a complicated subject, but very interesting. I can see why scholars spend their entire careers studying it. My own curiosity comes from wanting to know more about the relationship between democracy and nationalism.

Listening to Putin lecturing Tucker Carlson on Russian and Ukrainian history reminded me of Ukrainian Saturday school in Toronto. The names and events recited by Putin were familiar to me, but his interpretation was the opposite of what I was taught.

I’m a real person - a Canadian in Sarnia, Ontario - who reads about history. I’m using this new account to follow historians- some of whom I used to follow on Twitter.