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The AI attack-ad nightmare is coming true

AI is producing reality-bending midterm ads about defaced Bibles, upscale dinners and a board game with a "Death to America" playing card. Why it matters: The warnings about deepfakes are coming true. Election laws haven't kept pace with a world where campaigns can put words in opponents' mouths and create realistic-looking scenes that didn't happen. The…

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El-Sayed 'Has a Long History of Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood'On Sunday's broadcast of CNN's "State of the Union," Michigan Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers said his opponent, Democratic nominee Abdul | Clips

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'Crazy' to Assume I Have 'Dual Loyalties'On Saturday’s broadcast of "MS NOW Reports," Michigan's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, compared himself to late President John F. | Clips

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‘Want some crack?’ Alarms blare as Republicans unleash tsunami of deepfaked attack adsRepublicans and their allies are flooding the 2026 midterms with attack ads made with artificial intelligence, and election laws are struggling to keep pace. The Wesleyan Media Project found that $137 million had been spent on 220 AI-generated political ads through Oct. 11, and most of that came from Republicans, reported Axios . Many of the ads put…

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