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‘Deepfakes’ could trigger election security alert, gov’t officials say

News | 07/09/2019 4:50 pm EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives with his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and daughter Ella-Grace at the advance poll in Vanier to cast his ballot in the Ontario provincial election on May 25, 2018./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly manipulated for political purposes could potentially meet a national public interest threshold designated by a panel assigned to weed out election security concerns, federal officials said Tuesday.

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