Voting Officials Face ‘An Uphill Battle’ to Fight Election Lyricisms: Why Artificial Intelligence Can Get It Wrong
Every six months they came up with new conspiracy theories. It would be debunked. They’d have egg on their face. Adams said that they would go back in their hole for six months. You only get a small amount of treats at that apple.
Election officials say that they are controlling what they can in the face of that landscape. Over the last four years, they have reached out to a lot of skeptical voters, but they are still hoping that work will convince people to accept election results.
He said that using an artificial intelligence image of an election official breaking into a drop box would have a devastating effect. That kind of imagery could cause violence in a close election, which could undermine Americans’ trust in our system.
Source: Voting officials face ‘an uphill battle’ to fight election lies
The “Election Integrity Community” on Meta, Threads, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: Where do these social media scandals come from?
X is only one example, as other platforms have backed away from their more aggressive stance in 2020, cut back the number of people working on trust and safety and are less open about the work they are doing. Meta now lets Facebook and Instagram users opt out of some features of its fact-checking program, while its text-based social network, Threads, has deemphasized news and politics.
Conspiracy theories have been flying about election fraud as millions of Americans cast their votes ahead of Election Day. There are massive efforts to get rid of suspicious incidents so that they won’t be seen by voters. The “Election Integrity Community” on X is one hub for these efforts. The community is set up by the social media site’s owner Elon Musk’s super PAC and invites users to “share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities you see while voting in the 2024 election.”
“We try to not commit unforced errors,” said Stephen Richer, the Republican recorder in Maricopa County, Ariz., who has been an outspoken debunker of election lies. “But at the end of the day, if somebody really wants to make something look weird, I think they can do it, unfortunately.”
According to Lopez, election officers spend a lot of time making content for social media and it’s always sad when he sees three likes on something. Election officials are trying to figure out what can be done to be heard.
She said that if someone sees something suspicious, take a picture of it, and post it online without taking into account all the other remedies or the fact that there is nothing suspicious.
The State and Local Election Security Expert Reveals Musk’s Claims about the Number of Registered Voters in the U.S., a Case Study
The evidence generation infrastructure is more robust this year according to Danielle Lee Tomson, research manager at the University of Washington. Even when these efforts identify real issues with voting, they tend to ignore the checks in the system that catch problems, she said.
He lashed out at election officials when they tried to fix his false claims. The Michigan Secretary of State said that she received threats after she fact-checks Musk’s claim that the state had more registered voters than eligible citizens.
Musk has become a major factor in the baseless claims that Democrats are trying to bring in immigrants to vote for them, and that’s because Trump and other Republicans are using it as a ruse to try and steal the election.
Neil Makhija brought a voting ice cream truck to Montgomery County so that people could vote. Cramer, in Charleston County, co-wrote a children’s book. An app created by a North Carolina man could deliver election information to people in the area.
Carolina Lopez, who worked as an election official in the state of Florida for years, said that trying to fight fire with fire on social media has felt like a losing battle.
Warner told NPR that the government needed to get this information out as quickly as possible.
Last month, Warner wrote an open letter urging CISA to do more to help state and local governments identify and respond to election misinformation and disinformation campaigns, and to coordinate communications between the government, tech companies and researchers.
Cramer, who runs elections in Charleston County, said it was important to get the message out first and be as proactive as possible.
Local election officials want the public to know about their processes so they’re making more of a effort to get media attention. In a number of swing states election officials are holding multiple press conferences per week.
“What we are really trying to encourage them to do is to know that it is your state and local election official that is the signal through that noise,” Conley said.
Officials say, so far, there’s no sign that foreign adversaries have breached any election or voting systems. But attackers don’t have to succeed in order to undermine confidence, Conley, the election security expert, said.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have made public announcements to alert Americans about how foreign actors might try to undermine the election.
The Justice Department said in September that Russian operatives used to spoof American news outlets and spread fake news, it indicted employees of Kremlin-backed broadcasters, and brought criminal charges against Iranian hackers for targeting the Trump campaign.
The video is a fake. The envelopes and ballots shown don’t match what that county actually uses to vote. U.S. officials said it was created and spread by Russia to sow doubt in the election.
Source: Voting officials face ‘an uphill battle’ to fight election lies
Democrat officials face an uphill battle to fight election lies: A NPR interview with S.E.W. Mueller and the Department of Homeland Security
In an interview with NPR, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said that misinformation is cheap and effective.
This year, Russia is angling to boost Trump, as it did in the previous two presidential elections, while Iran is trying to undermine the former president, the intelligence community and private sector researchers say. China is targeting down-ballot races but does not appear to have a preference in the presidential election. They seize on issues of division, from immigration to abortion to the war in Gaza. And they’ve all experimented with using AI to churn out more misleading content.
Federal intelligence and law enforcement officials are taking a more aggressive approach this year in calling out foreign meddling. The Obama administration was reluctant to reveal the full extent of Russia’s efforts to favor Trump until after the election.
The Department of Homeland Security’s cyber agency is facing the most complex threat environment compared to a previous cycle, according to an interview with NPR.
“If I lose — I’ll tell you what, it’s possible. They cheat. At the Michigan rally, Trump said that they were going to lose because they cheated.
Perhaps the biggest factor is former President Donald Trump, who continues to falsely assert he won the 2020 election, despite courts and investigations finding no evidence of fraud. Should he lose again this year, he’s already setting the stage to reject the results.
Source: Voting officials face ‘an uphill battle’ to fight election lies
The Russian Propaganda of Tim Walz and a Video of the Harris-Horizon Scenario in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
In the last few weeks, the Russian propaganda operation behind the video has also put out faked videos targeting Harris and her running mate Tim Walz.
“They’re fighting an uphill battle,” said Mr. Linvill, co-director of the media forensics hub. I am sure they feel like they’re trying to put their finger in the ground before it explodes.
It was evident that the deck was against voting officials more than it was in 2020 because of the incident. The phony video was viewed hundreds of thousands of times shortly after it was posted. A statement from Bucks County debunking it three hours later was shared on X fewer than 100 times.
A video was posted on X last week claiming to show a person in Pennsylvania ripping up the Trump and Harris ballots and leaving them alone.
Up First Newsletter: Demystifying Voter Fraud, Conspiracy Theories. And, Presidential Power Over Abortion
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A series of Facebook ads seemingly advocating for Harris are actually spreading misinformation about her current policy positions in an attempt to mislead voters. These ads, which have been viewed millions of times in swing states, are posted by an account called “Progress 2028,” which suggests a liberal counterpart to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. The ads claim that Harris intends to implement a mandatory gun buyback program, provide Medicare benefits and driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants and ban fracking. Funding for these ads comes from a dark money group backed by Musk and others, according to the campaign tracking site Open Secrets.
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