“It was jarring for folks in the room to see how quickly just a handful of these types of threats could spiral out of control and really dominate the election cycle,” said one of the organizers.
  • Valen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    634·
    8 个月前

    Spreading election lies (and that’s what these deepfakes are), needs to be a felony, not protected by the 1st amendment.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
      313·
      8 个月前

      Republicans have weaponized misinformation and protected their operators from scrutiny. It will never be punished the way it should.

    • thenexusofprivacy@piefed.social
      18·
      8 个月前

      Spreading false voting information – like the example in the article about fake phone calls saying polling places are closed – is a crime in the US, whether or not it’s online, it’s just hot particularly well enforced.

  • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.mlEnglish
    431·
    8 个月前

    Good news! We don’t have to wonder what’s going to happen! It’s totally going to happen in the next few months!

  • Nudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
    293·
    8 个月前

    They should do one where they let a guy who led an insurrection against the government run for president a few years later.

  • Infinite@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23·
    8 个月前

    It’s not the big, loud disinformation that’s the most worrying; at least that can be addressed head-on. It’s the subtle, divisive manipulation that’s been going on for years that has us disowning family and flirting with civil war.

  • CaptainProton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 个月前

    You know where this is going, can’t trust the vote of a misinformed voter, so… No vote until the government figures out what information you need for deciding on further changes to government.

  • SteefLem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    8 个月前

    Hope they do a Ceaușescu on that fatshitsmellingorangemushroombaby, but faster.