#117 Jason Crawforth + Joao-Pierre Ruth on deepfakes, misinformation, privacy, elections, democracy

We discussed a few things including:1. Jason and JP's career journeys  2. How Jason founded Swear3. JP's assessment of media and misinformation landscape4. How to protect against misinformation and deepfakes5. Tech trends, opportunities + forecastsJason Crawforth, founder of Swear.com, has been building technology companies for over 25 years. Jason has a track record of success and has been awarded multiple times by Inc Magazine as running one of the fastest growing private technology companies in America.  Jason and his teams have designed, built, deployed, and managed hundreds of information technology systems for Fortune 100 companies as well as a pioneer in the mobile app space with over 30 million downloads of his solutions.-----Joao-Pierre S. Ruth covers tech policy, including ethics, privacy, legislation, and risk; fintech; code strategy; and cloud & edge computing for InformationWeek. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years, reporting on business and technology first in New Jersey, then covering the New York tech startup community, and later as a freelancer for such outlets as TheStreet, Investopedia, and Street Fight.#podcast #AFewThingsPodcast