At first of the weekend, the FBI issued a statement addressing movies “falsely claiming to be from the FBI regarding election safety.” That features one claiming the bureau had “apprehended three linked teams committing poll fraud,” and one about Kamala Harris’ husband.
Disinformation has seemingly grown considerably within the remaining few days, with the presidential election kicking off tomorrow. Late final week, the FBI, the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) mentioned they’d traced two different movies again to “Russian affect actors,” together with one falsely depicting people from Haiti voting illegally in a number of counties in Georgia.
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— Mat Smith
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