Election years can bring stress, anxiety and sleepless nights—and now, also the overwhelming potential of being gaslighted by synthetic media, otherwise known as deepfakes.
The U.S. election season has already seen deepfake robocalls of President Joe Biden telling residents to not vote ahead of the New Hampshire primary. And there’s also been a fabricated image of former President Donald Trump hugging Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
