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Deepfake of Baltimore Principal Leads to Arrest of School Employee

A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.

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Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case

Those charged included Boris Epshteyn, a top legal strategist for Donald Trump, and fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in Arizona after the 2020 election.

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TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?

For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

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Deepfake of Baltimore Principal Leads to Arrest of School Employee

A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after the police said he used A.I. to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.

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Nina Jankowicz Forms New Group to Defend Disinformation Research

The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation.

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G.O.P. Intensifies Scrutiny of Voting: 'We're Keeping a Close Eye on You'

The Trump campaign and the Republican Party plan to dispatch over 100,000 volunteers and lawyers to monitor elections in battleground states — and work in concert with conservative activists.

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Trump and Mike Johnson to Make Announcement on 'Election Integrity'

Neither man has elaborated publicly on the subject of Friday’s announcement, but the former president has made false claims of a stolen 2020 election central to his current campaign.

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Jackson Hinkle Rides Rage Over Israel to Prominence

Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October — a surge that some researchers say is aided by inauthentic accounts.

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Conservative Operatives Must Pay Up to $1.25 Million for Robocalls to Suppress Black Voters

Right-wing operatives were behind the calls, which falsely claimed that people who voted by mail would have their information sent to law enforcement agencies.

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Opinion | Deepfake Porn Sites Used Her Image. She's Fighting Back.

Nicholas Kristof on why tech companies aren’t powerless over the spread of deepfake porn.

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