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Independence Day, 2011

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Three hundred million of us, each with our own story; the story of who we are and who we hope to be: our family background, our history, our culture, along with our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations and our prayers for our children and for the world. My Grandfather Stahl smuggled himself out of Latvia, coming to America as a young man.

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‘Deepfake’ that supposedly fooled European politicians was just a look-alike, say pranksters

The Verge

Parliamentarians from the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia had all arranged video calls with a hoaxer claiming to be Leonid Volkov, chief of staff to imprisoned Russian anti-Putin politician Alexei Navalny. Our work is to prank high officials and celebrities and to make a lot of fun and publish it to social media,” says Stolyarov.