Biden: No deep fakes, bots or disinformation by my campaign

[brooklynite]

Politico

Joe Biden is pledging to not take part in the spread of disinformation over social media in his campaign for president, including rejecting the use of deep fake videos, synthetic social media accounts and bot networks to attack opponents.

Those are among the tactics federal law enforcement found to be widespread in the 2016 presidential election.

The former vice president’s pledge comes the same week that President Donald Trump said he would accept campaign assistance from a foreign power and that the FBI director was “wrong” to expect a campaign to report such an overture to law enforcement. And last month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the target of an altered video that falsely showed her slurring her speech; experts expect such visual forgeries, which sometimes employ artificial intelligence, to grow only more prevalent in the run-up to 2020.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation concluded that Russia had driven false social media messaging in an attempt to manipulate the 2016 presidential election. And FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly warned that such meddling — both by foreign powers and domestically — is ongoing and expected to be part of the 2020 campaign.

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1. Good to get this out there that

it will happen and probably already is.