It started about 18 months ago. It was shocking then and is even more so now. 

Listeners, viewers, friends, colleagues and family started to contact me, all with roughly the same question, then and now:

"Is this ad I've seen with you in it real? And should I buy the product?"

What they had seen was a video or article, via Facebook or Instagram, which featured me flogging supplements or weight loss products purporting to treat heart disease, diabetes or obesity. 

Deepfake videos of Norman Swan are tricking people into buying unproven supplements at a risk to their own health

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/deepfake-norman-swan-videos-spruiking-unproven-medicines/105038482

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DEEPFAKES ARE NEW WAYS TO EXPLOIT OUR ABILITY TO BE DECEIVE AND TO DECEIVE. AS LONG-TERM READERS OF THIS SITE WOULD KNOW, WE’VE BEEN ON THE SUBJECT OF DECEIT FOR YONKS (2005)… THUS HERE WE TRY TO EXPOSE THE TRICKS AND SHOW THE TRUTH…

NOT ALWAYS EASY. WE HAVE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE “GOOD BOOKS” SUCH AS THE BIBLE AND THE K-WHATEVER. 

SCIENCE IS OUR BEST WAY TO DEFEND THE TRUTH. ART IS A TOOL OF DECEPTION AND IMAGINATION, RARELY A SAUCE FOR TRUTH. OFTEN, I ASK MYSELF HOW CAN I MAKE A CARTOON THAT EXPOSES THE TRUTH, WHILE NOT DYING IN SHAME TOMORROW WHEN NEW FACTS COME TO LIGHT.

THIS IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT LOOKS. TOO MANY CARTOONISTS RESPOND TO THE MOMENT, NOT THE UNDERCURRENTS. 

DEEPFAKES ARE DIFFICULT TO FIGHT WITHOUT A PUNCH-BACK, BUT SOMETIMES EVEN THE PUNCH-BACKS ARE DEEP-FAKES, GENERATED TO APPEAR TRUE, TO REINFORCE THE ORIGINAL DEEP-FAKES. WE KNOW THE TRICKS AND WE WALK CAREFULLY. WE DOUBLE-CHECK INFORMATION AND TRANSLATIONS.

POLITICS MAY NOT NEED DEEPFAKES BUT THEY WILL BE MANIPULATED BY LIES AND PROMISES. AND WE HAVE TO MAKE CHOICES. WE VOTE WITH PROPORTIONS...

THE MAJOR DEEPFAKE OF THIS DECADE IS NOT A MADE UP VIDEO CLIP, BUT A REAL PERSON WHO WAS ON STAGE WHILE THE MANIPULATORS OF INFORMATION RAN THE SHOW.

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN… JOE BIDEN WAS A GHOST, WITH A WEAK BRAIN, ALREADY GEARED FOR DECEPTION (HE HAD BEEN A WELL-PRACTICED LIAR SINCE HE CAME OF AGE), WHO WAS LESS AND LESS ABLE TO THINK FOR HIMSELF (IF HE EVER DID). 

WE KNEW THIS. WE ALL COULD SEE THIS — EXCEPT THE MEDIOCRE MEDIA AND JOE’S ENTOURAGE THAT WERE USING THIS EMPTY SHELL TO PROMOTE AND SIGN ON A LOT OF — DARE I SAY — PSEUDO-DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION. THIS LEAD TO 12 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FLOODING AMERICA, MORE THAN ONE MILLION DEAD UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS, THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA AND A SILLY WOKE AGENDA THAT WENT BEYOND RAINBOW DECENCY.

FLOGGING SNAKE OIL HAS LONG BEEN THE PROVINCE OF CHARLATANS AND RELIGIONS. SELLING POLITICAL IDEALS COMES NEXT. EVEN SCIENCE IS OFTEN MANIPULATED TO PROMOTE A WRONG IDEA OR STATISTIC.

CANNABIS IS NOT MANUFACTURED NOR SOLD BY ELON MUSK, WHO HAS ENOUGH ON HIS PLATE TO MANAGE HIS EXPLODING METHANE ROCKETS AND ELECTRIC CARS.

SO, BEWARE OF DEEPFAKES AND OF REAL DENIALISTS WHO TRY TO TELL YOU GLOBAL WARMING IS HOAX. IT’S NOT… GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC.... BUT OUR POLITICAL MACHINATIONS TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM ARE BORDERING ON INEFFICIENCY AND MADNESS. WE FIDDLE ON THE EDGES WITH SOLUTIONS THAT CAN CREATE MORE PROBLEMS LATER ON. 

THIS IS WHY WE NEED AI TO HELP DEVELOP MODELS OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE CLIMATE IN SAY 150 YEARS TIME. ALL THESE MODELS WILL BE MOSTLY WRONG, BUT THEY WILL PLAY OUT WITHIN BRACKETS OF PROPER PREDICTIONS. DO WE NEED TO KNOW? UNIMPORTANT TO ME BUT TO FUTURE GENERATIONS...

COVID WAS A SCARE IN WHICH PROPAGANDA AND FEAR PLAYED A BIG PART. THE GOOD DOCTOR SWAN APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY THE OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA, WHILE SOME HEALTHY SCEPTICISM WAS NEEDED TO BE ALERT… WE STILL DON’T KNOW THE FULL TRUTH ON THIS SUBJECT AND WE STILL NEED TO QUESTION THE NARRATIVES…

THE BIDEN EPISODE SHOULD BE A WARNING TO OUR DEMOCRACIES. AND I SAY DEMOCRACIES, BECAUSE WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, CHINA IS A DEMOCRACY AND RUSSIA IS A DEMOCRACY. OUR WESTERN DEMOCRATIC MODEL, PROVEN BY THE “DEMOCRATS/BIDEN CONSPIRACY” AND THE BRUSSELS SPROUTS OF THE EU ARE FULL OF CRAP. WE CAN DO BETTER.

GUS LEONISKY…

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.