FBI warns voters about inauthentic movies regarding election safety

The FBI issued a press release on Saturday about misleading movies circulating forward of the election, saying it’s conscious of two such movies “falsely claiming to be from the FBI regarding election safety.” That features one claiming the FBI had “apprehended three linked teams committing poll fraud,” and one about Kamala Harris’ husband. Each depict false content material, the FBI mentioned.

Disinformation — together with the unfold of political deepfakes and different types of deceptive movies and imagery — has been a significant concern within the leadup to the US presidential election. In its assertion posted on X, the FBI added:

Only a day earlier, the together with 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 “that falsely depicted people claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in a number of counties in Georgia.”