Did MSM Use AI-Generated Audio To Frame Roger Stone As Violent?

Media promoting questionable audio clip claiming Stone advocated political violence against Democrat politicians

On Wednesday, longtime Donald Trump insider and political guru Roger Stone claimed the mainstream media has been distributing an AI-generated audio file using his voice to claim he threatened to murder Democrat politicians.

“Mediaite MSNBC and CNN lie about fake AI generated audio in which they allege I threatened Democrats – it’s a fugazi !!” Stone wrote on ?.

The ordeal began when Mediaite in early January published an article titled, “Exclusive: Roger Stone Spoke With Cop Pal About Assassinating Eric Swalwell and Jerry Nadler.”

In the original piece, Mediaite’s Diana Falzone claimed an anonymous source provided her with audio of Stone talking to ex-NYPD Officer Sal Greco about Democrat politicians needing to “die before the election.”

Since the Falzone article included no audio, Stone responded by asking for proof of the alleged discussion.

Stone asked the Daily Mail, “If there is such an audio, why don’t they post it? Why won’t they send it to me? If there is such an audio, it would have to be illegally obtained and if there is such an audio it would have to be an AI generated fraud since I never said any of the words attributed to me.”

After Stone questioned the existence of the audio, Falzone released the recording allegedly provided to her by the anonymous source.

In the audio clip, a person who sounds like Stone says, “It’s time to do it. Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election. They need to get the message. Let’s go find Swalwell and get this over with. I’m just not putting up with this shit anymore.”

See Falzone’s video report including the audio below:

However, Stone again contended on social media that AI-created audio was likely used to fake the conversation and frame him, writing, “Total Bullshit.”

In a Rare.us article shared by Stone on ?, author Troy Smith pointed out Falzone admitted in her video report the audio was “lightly-edited” while claiming on social media the “contents were not edited” in a now-deleted post.

Next, Stone shared a screenshot showing an AI-detecting technology concluded there was a 92% chance the audio file used an AI-generated voice.

A second analysis reportedly concluded there was a 96% chance the Stone voice was an AI-created fake.

Proving how easy it is to create an AI-generated audio clip of someone famous, Stone reposted an ? user’s video where a fake Joe Biden says, “Let’s go find Swalwell and get it over with. And yes, I stole the 2020 election.”

Audio expert and top sound technician Hitesh Ceon talked with Rare about the audio, telling the outlet, “When I heard the recording of Roger Stone, there was something that immediately struck me as unnatural about the tonal flow, especially on the part that starts just after ‘how brave the rest of them are’ on the recording. The background noise and the filtered/low quality sound of the recording is very useful for masking any very obvious flaws in the AI generated voice.”

Ceon continued, explaining he then created the “AI generated ‘recording’ with Joe Biden’s voice,” explaining, “I put similar background noise behind it, using a similarly, rather dull, frequency response and mono audio, like the ‘recording’ of Roger Stone. Very easy to do and took me only around five minutes—demonstrating how easily a fake ‘recording’ like this can be produced.”

Despite the likelihood that Mediaite was sent fake audio, or the potential that the outlet itself created an AI-generated “recording,” dozens of political pundits and media outlets have shared the audio as if it was confirmed to be real.

According to CNN on Wednesday, US Capitol Police and the FBI have opened investigations into the audio file.

Never Trump “pro-democracy organization” The Lincoln Project shared the audio on ?, writing, “Roger Stone on tape discussing the assassination of two prominent Democrats, which he denied ever doing,” as if it were the gospel truth.

The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson stated, “Roger Stone will die in prison.”

A Trump Derangement Syndrome-suffering Democrat attorney also shared the audio.

California Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell joined CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° this week to respond to the audio clip, telling viewers, “I was stunned that he was so brazen about it. Maybe I shouldn’t be stunned because the truth is when it comes to Donald Trump and his henchmen like Roger Stone, they prefer violence over voting.”

Also responding to the audio, Rep. Nadler (NY) wrote, “Political violence has no place in our democracy. I am alarmed by Roger Stone’s threats against my life, but I will not be deterred by Mr. Stone or anyone else who seeks to intimidate me from holding Donald Trump and those in his orbit accountable.  I am grateful to the Capitol Police and FBI for taking these allegations seriously and I know that the authorities will follow the facts where they lead.”

Both Roger Stone and NYPD Officer Sal Greco provided exclusive comments to Infowars regarding the story.

Read Stone’s statement below:

“Once again, I have been targeted by the Democrat/Mainstream Media Cabal. How coincidental that the same people who insisted, falsely, that I was involved in ‘Russian collusion’ with the Trump campaign in 2016, insisted, falsely, that I was involved in the illegal actions at the Capitol on January 6th, also reported incorrectly that I was involved in the efforts to delay the certification of the Electoral College vote in the U.S. Senate: now use an indisputably fabricated audio created with AI to accuse me of saying things I never said.”

“It’s particularly outrageous that the usual suspects such as CNN, MSNBC, The Messenger, Salon, The Daily Beast and The Independent just take falsehoods and an unverified audio by Mediaite and report the accusations as if they are factual.

“Interestingly, none of these so-called ‘journalists’ contacted me for comment and most of them exclude my denial and the results of the forensic examination experts have done of this bogus audio which I posted online in their reporting.

“Needless to say, I have to seriously contemplate suing Mediaite and other news organizations that have defamed me. Unfortunately, under the New York Times v. Sullivan decision, the bar is extraordinarily high in order to win a judgement for defamation because I would be required to prove malice. Also, such a lawsuit would be extraordinarily expensive and Mrs. Stone and I have not yet fully financially recovered from our devastating two-year assault in the Mueller witch-hunt. Patriots who want to HELP ME finance a lawsuit against these demons can GO TO StoneDefenseFund.com.”

Also, read Greco’s statement:

“The NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau did an extensive investigation on me personally establishing a few things. A) I was not involved with starting a civil war. B) I have no liability either civil or criminal in regard to the events of January 6, 2021 or any other nefarious conduct on any other date. The only thing I keep being falsely accused of repeatedly is guilt by association being a friend of Roger Stone. This audio nonsense is just another version of political fodder.”

Watch Stone’s most recent appearance on The Alex Jones Show below:

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