CNN’s Jake Tapper warns that we are entering an era of ‘deepfakes and all kinds of misinformation’

CNN’s Jake Tapper warned Monday that the country was about to enter an “era of deepfakes and all kinds of misinformation” under President Trump, while discussing the Presence of Big Tech in your opening.

“We are about to enter an era of deepfakes, and all kinds of misinformation and the degree to which those five gentlemen play a role or not, will be critical in terms of where the American people are four years from now, in terms of understanding what is true and what is false,” Tapper said before Trump was sworn in.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were among the giants technological. attending the inauguration.

Tapper said those five people “control a lot of the information we receive, so there is a lot in their hands when it comes to determining, monitoring or refusing to monitor what is real and what is not real.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper speaks on CNN on January 12, 2025. (Screenshot/CNN)

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper extended Tapper’s warning to the entire world.

“We’re not just talking about us, the United States, but about the world. Every human being on the planet controls access to information. They are the gatekeepers of information in many ways for the entire planet,” he said. saying.

CNN’s Van Jones highlighted the historic nature of the photos showing the five technology executives, noting that most of them supported the Democratic Party not long ago.

“Look, that image is going to be historic. I call it the revenge of the nerds. Don’t forget that those four gentlemen, four years ago, supported the Democratic Party,” he said.

Priscilla Chan (L), Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sánchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) attend to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in the rotunda of the US Capitol in January. December 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. ((Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images))

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“An untold story here is how Democrats went from four years ago to having the White House, the Senate, the House and Silicon Valley and now all four are in the hands of Donald Trump,” Jones said, arguing that the Biden administration pushed Scrap them by not introducing regulations on cryptocurrencies and by pushing the idea that all big business is bad.

“Elon Musk was an Andrew Yang Democrat. But when Joe Biden held his EV summit, he left Elon out. There were a lot of unforced errors on the part of the Biden Administration,” Jones continued. “Those four are all of our people who were kicked out of our party because we didn’t have a first approach to innovation from the Biden White House and now we are paying the price. It’s not just that we lost the White House, the House, the Senate “We lost Silicon Valley in the last four years and you have no one to blame but us.”

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Zuckerberg notably announced Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking program ended in early January and said they would use a system similar to X’s community notes.