AI, deepfakes make disinformation attacks easier than ever this election, senator warns

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

(Illustration by Diane Bakunawa for Local News Matters; photos courtesy White House)

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence since 2021, reached out to ethnic media outlets this week to warn of new forms of election interference.

“The thing that I’m probably most afraid of is a thing like deepfake technology being used, maybe not to manipulate an actual candidate, but to have an appearance of an election official on Election Day or the day after election, appearing to destroy ballots,” Warner said.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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