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Tool that will enable users to fabricate video of anyone, doing and saying anything

The election interference tactics originally deployed by Russia against the US and Europe are now global. Hackers across the democratic world have exploited weaknesses in campaign email servers; probed electronic voting machines for vulnerabilities; set up troll farms to spread highly-partisan narratives; and employed armies of bots to distort the truth online.

Tech experts in countries such as Iran and Venezuela have borrowed these tactics and joined efforts toward the same goals: To erode confidence in electoral processes and in democratic governance itself.

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