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

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

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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.

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

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

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I don’t care how polished a deepfake it might end up being… nobody would believe something that batshit.

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It’s not even original, a similar thing happened in the 1930s in Germany.

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There are no experts on this. We’re in uncharted water.

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If you think that the US is like WW2 era Germany in terms of facism, I doubt you know enough about WW2 era Germany…

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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.

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