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Presented by Facebook: Feb 28, 2022 View in browser   By Alex Thompson , Gavin Bade , Max Tani and Daniel Lippman Presented by Facebook Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook , your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email Max In December, Ambassador to Japan RAHM EMANUEL met with U.S. Trade Representative KATHERINE TAI ahead of his move abroad. Lowering trade barriers is near the top of Japan's to-do list — they still want the U.S. to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership, for instance — and Emanuel wanted to get started on the issue. The meeting in Tai's office went poorly w...

The fake photos were likely developed using generative adversarial networks. Inside.com Part of   Network February 28, 2022 Presented by Facebook parent Meta said it took down a disinformation campaign that used fake AI-generated photos and fake profiles to spread falsehoods about Ukraine. The network of social media groups and pages promoted websites with "claims about the West betraying Ukraine and Ukraine being a failed state," Meta said. More: The fake pictures were most likely developed using the AI technology known as generative adversarial networks, or GANs , according to Meta. The individuals involved were from Russia and Ukraine and posed as real people across social media networks, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, VK, and Telegram. They pretended to be "news editors, a former aviation engineer, and an author of a scientific publicati...