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Carol Hancox
November 9, 7:37 PM
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Check out this guide to learn where 2024 presidential candidates stand on AI regulation, climate tech and data privacy.
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Carol Hancox
November 9, 7:28 PM
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On the ground, the Trump campaign was at a disadvantage to Kamala Harris’s massive canvassing operations. But many misunderstood the power—and purpose—of influencer marketing campaigns.
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Carol Hancox
November 3, 4:53 AM
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A report distributed by the US Department of Homeland Security warned that financially motivated cybercriminals are more likely to attack US election infrastructure than state-backed hackers.
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Carol Hancox
November 3, 4:22 AM
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From bulletproof glass, drones, and snipers to boulders blocking election offices, the US democratic system is bracing for violent attacks in 2024.
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Carol Hancox
October 27, 1:24 AM
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The Trump and Harris campaigns have built huge networks of influencers and content creators. They have one last job—getting people out to vote.
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Carol Hancox
October 27, 12:43 AM
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Moldova is facing a tide of disinformation unprecedented in complexity and aggression, the head of a new center meant to combat it tells WIRED. And platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and YouTube could do more.
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Carol Hancox
September 23, 4:14 AM
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In an Intelligence Committee hearing with representatives from Google, Apple, and Meta on Wednesday, senators stressed that foreign influence is far from a solved problem.
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Carol Hancox
August 24, 2:50 AM
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Kamala Harris has launched a new Twitch channel as a part of the Democratic campaign’s broader strategy for engaging young voters online.
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Carol Hancox
August 17, 2:25 AM
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From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election.
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Carol Hancox
July 12, 1:46 AM
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This wasn't the social media election everyone expected
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Carol Hancox
June 30, 4:06 AM
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Experts tell WIRED that Russian disinformation campaigns are using generative AI more and more.
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Carol Hancox
June 13, 7:23 PM
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Wyoming’s secretary of state wants the county to reject its candidacy, but the AI bot’s human “meat puppet” says everything is in order.
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Carol Hancox
June 9, 4:55 AM
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With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020, and won’t return results on any election anywhere, ever.
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Carol Hancox
November 9, 7:32 PM
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Donald Trump owes at least part of his victory to the manosphere—the amorphous assortment of influencers who are mostly young, exclusively male, and increasingly the drivers of the remaining online monoculture.
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Carol Hancox
November 9, 7:06 PM
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Donald Trump's approach to Big Tech has oscillated between calls for stricter regulations for some players and a hands-off approach for others. Here's how he might steer tech policy in a second term.
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Carol Hancox
November 3, 4:33 AM
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Unscrupulous online operators are spreading toxic lies to push bitcoin scams and sell MAGA shirts to Facebook users in the run-up to the US presidential election.
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Carol Hancox
November 3, 4:18 AM
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Pro-Trump groups have spent years building election denial networks that, combined with Big Tech’s hands-off approach and continued foreign interference, have created a toxic information ecosystem.
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Carol Hancox
October 27, 12:49 AM
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Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the US election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season.
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Carol Hancox
October 6, 1:23 AM
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More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, WIRED will be tracking every instance of AI’s use in and around those campaigns.
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Carol Hancox
September 15, 11:26 PM
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An election conspiracy group has announced plans to livestream footage from ballot drop boxes and recruit sheriffs to help. Local officials are concerned about potential voter intimidation.
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Carol Hancox
August 24, 2:45 AM
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A week after falsely claiming Kamala Harris’ campaign used AI to inflate crowd sizes, Trump is now posting AI-generated photos of Taylor Swift fans endorsing him.
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Carol Hancox
August 17, 2:01 AM
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APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump’s and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
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Carol Hancox
July 6, 12:28 AM
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“Although conversation provoking, it reads as infantilizing,” says one young voter about the meme campaigns waged by the Labour and Conservative parties in the UK. “They’re trivializing a very serious event.”
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Carol Hancox
June 29, 3:17 AM
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If it wins the UK general election, “AI Steve” will be represented by businessman Steve Endacott in Parliament. Endacott says he’ll merely be a conduit, and the AI will make the policy decisions.
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Carol Hancox
June 9, 5:22 AM
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A vast majority of the election-related disinformation a South African watchdog group identified came from X, where Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla posted a fake video featuring a Donald Trump endorsement.
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