President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is staffing up on digital, with four key hires ahead of the Super Tuesday primary elections. On Sunday, the campaign named Ryan Thompson as chief mobilization officer and Kate Conway as creative director. Cat Stern was named director of digital persuasion and Clarke Humphrey is …
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Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. first announced his longshot presidential bid, his campaign has leaned into a variety of unorthodox digital strategies. He’s appeared on countless podcasts and collaborated with popular influencers to reach voters online. More recently, the Kennedy campaign has experimented with an AI chatbot that used an …
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This week, the notorious ransomware gang known as LockBit threatened a kind of disruption that would have been a first even for a criminal industry that has crippled hospitals and triggered the shutdown of a gas pipeline: leaking documents from the criminal prosecution of a former president and presidential candidate. …
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The meeting between top US election officials and their cybersecurity partners from the federal government almost went off without a hitch. Then Mac Warner spoke up. Warner, West Virginia’s Republican secretary of state, didn’t have a mundane logistical question for the government representatives, who were speaking at the winter meeting …
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President Joe Biden is officially on TikTok. In the middle of the Super Bowl on Sunday, the Biden campaign announced that it had joined the platform. In Biden’s first post, he’s asked a series of questions, like whether he prefers the Kansas City Chiefs or the San Francisco 49ers. At …
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It’s now illegal in the US for robocallers to use AI-generated voices, thanks to a new ruling by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday. In a unanimous decision, the FCC expands the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, to cover robocall scams that contain AI voice clones. The new rule …
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A Russian disinformation campaign is deploying everything from high-ranking lawmakers and government officials to lifestyle influencers, bloggers, and powerful state-run media outlets to stoke divisions in the United States around the Texas border crisis. WIRED has also obtained exclusive access to data from two separate disinformation research groups that demonstrate …
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For a man who claims to be written-off and censored by the mainstream media, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign for president has thrived online. In recent months, Kennedy has suddenly been everywhere. On Instagram, a video of him snorkeling off the shores of Hawaii with a shark advocate and environmental …
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On Tuesday, New Hampshire attorney general John Formella said that a Texas-based telecom company was behind the reportedly AI-generated robocalls impersonating President Joe Biden that went out ahead of the state’s presidential primary last month. At a press conference on Tuesday, Formella announced that he had identified Life Corporation and …
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What does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have in common with The Golden Bachelor? According to Federal Election Commission records, the longshot presidential candidate shared the same stylist as Gerry Turner of the popular ABC dating series. In Kennedy’s most recent financial filing with the FEC posted last week, his campaign …
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