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Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs

TV Flash files “Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs” as hour 615 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 4, aired 2021-10-10, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E04: listed hour 615 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 4 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2021-10-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Facebook Whistleblower | Unforgiven | The Final Act” (S54E03). Next is “Robert Gates | The Green River Drift | Whither Ye Olde English Pub” (S54E05). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs (S54E04)

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Deepfakes – Bill Whitaker reports on the use of artificial intelligence to create deepfakes, a rapidly improving technology some experts say in the years to come will give anyone the ability to create special effects like a Hollywood studio.  1,000 Children – At least a thousand children taken from parents at the U.S. border three years ago remain separated, despite the seven-month effort by a U.S. government task force to reunify them. Sharyn Alfonsi speaks to the head of the task force and a family separated for four years.  Deep Springs – Around two dozen of the world's brightest attend Deep Springs College, miles from the nearest town in the California desert, where students shoulder the responsibilities and challenges of life on a working ranch in addition to a full roster of academic work. Jon Wertheim reports.

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Where does Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S54E04 is listed hour 615 of 767 — hour 4 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 4.

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Deepfakes | 1,000 Children | Deep Springs aired 2021-10-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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