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Deepfakes are a risk to 2020 elections, experts tell Congress

Deepfakes and other manipulated videos put the integrity of democratic elections at risk, a group of experts told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Wednesday. What to do about it is a thorny question. A hearing, titled “Americans at Risk: Manipulation and Deception in the Digital Age” and held by the subcommittee on Consumer Protection, focused on the wide …

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US Army says texts about draft are fake

In the days since Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike, some people in the US received texts saying they’d been drafted into military service. The US Army says those messages are fake.  The US Army Recruiting Twitter account on Tuesday said text messages about people being drafted are “false and are not official Army Communication.” Army Recruiting …

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