In this edition of This Week in AI, TechCrunch's AI newsletter, we look at how easy it is to create a political deepfake.

It’s election eve, Nov. 4, and a disturbing video is circulating on all the major social media platforms (X, Instagram, ...

Russian trolls are using artificial intelligence, including a deepfake of Vice President Kamala Harris, to try influencing public opinion ahead the US election, according to new research from ...

It laid out a strategy that was meant to prevent its tools from being used to help spread misinformation and made sure that ...

Santiago/Getty Images Kamala Harris is trying to woo business leaders by presenting herself as a centrist who supports markets and technological innovation. Call it a political deepfake ...

Plus: A month after Helene, we hear stories of heroism and heartbreak out of North Carolina. All these and more stories on ...

Sasha Issenberg is the author of five books, including The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Defeating Disinformation and Winning Elections. He oversees POLITICO’s coverage of ballot ...

As the first woman of color to be a presidential nominee, Harris already has faced a massive double standard in expectations, and an absurdly high bar compared to her opponent. But history and ...

Did you see those Kamala Harris ads on Facebook? Be careful. They might have duped you. A series of ads that look like they ...

Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, has responded to rumors claiming she suffered a mental breakdown and was hospitalized following the election loss.

It was shockingly easy to create a convincing Kamala Harris audio deepfake on Election Day. It cost me $5 and took less than two minutes, illustrating how cheap, ubiquitous generative AI has ...