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Niamh McIntyre

Niamh McIntyre

Aug 6, 2026

4:26
And without naming this guy, what, what can you tell us about who he is and-
4:30
Yeah, well, what, what we did n- 'cause the, the, the other great thing from the story perspective was that he actually was very open to being interviewed.
4:41
Um, so my colleague Misbah, who is an Urdu speaker, uh, she spoke with him at length, um, in his own language.
4:52
So he, he told us a relative amount about himself, like he, he came from, um, quite a humble background in a, um, small city in Pakistan.
5:05
He said that before he'd kind of got into AI-generated content creation, he'd been kind of struggling financially and that this, this line of work had really, like, transformed the circumstances of his life.
5:22
He said that he was making 1,500, uh, US dollars a month, which, um, for the part of Pakistan that he was in, that's, like, really good wage.
5:33
Um, and then I suppose the, yeah, the, the, the other aspect of the, the story that was most compelling was that he was clearly a, um, man of some religious conviction.

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23:38
So could you explain why indeed these governments are not stepping up more because they're in a sense ruining, of course, the democratic debate?

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