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US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. Harris was among multiple politicians denigrated by the Chinese-linked group Spamouflage. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Disinfo group Spamouflage more aggressively targeting U.S. elections, candidates

Graphika report finds the Chinese-linked group has been creating American personas online and spreading content designed to denigrate both parties and candidates. 
People in Buenos Aires, Argentina, walk past electoral posters made with artificial intelligence of presidential candidate Sergio Massa on Oct. 3, 2023. (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)

How AI will change democracy

Artificial intelligence is coming for our democratic politics, from how politicians campaign to how the legal system functions.
Supporters of President Joe Biden greet voters on January 23, 2024 in Loudon, New Hampshire. Three New Hampshire voters sued a Democratic operative who admitted to creating an fake AI-generated robocall of President Joe Biden, as well as two companies that allegedly helped. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

New Hampshire voters sue operative, companies behind Biden AI robocall

The complaint argues that the calls were an illegal attempt at voter suppression under the Voting Rights Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, gives an opening statement during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Wednesday, December 16, 2020.

The 2024 race promises to be ‘very, very active’ in terms of foreign and domestic meddling, says former CISA chief

Chris Krebs said he expects to see Russia, China and Iran — and even domestic groups — attempt to influence and disrupt the presidential race.
Russian President Vladimir Putin answers questions from Russian and foreign internet users during a live press conference on July 6, 2006. (DENIS SINYAKOV/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s time to focus on information warfare’s hard questions

Our collective obsession with information operations are distracting from more fundamental questions about online influence.
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