Misinformation and foreign interference concerns loom over presidential race
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump spent their weekends on the road |
| 0:05.0 | making their appeals to voters. They each held rallies as concerns flooded the internet |
| 0:10.3 | from cyber security threats to false allegations involving artificial intelligence. |
| 0:15.8 | Laura Baron Lopez has more. |
| 0:19.4 | It was a weekend marathon of rallies. Both candidates on the campaign trail, but for the third |
| 0:26.1 | presidential election in a row foreign interference has again cast an ominous shadow. |
| 0:31.2 | On Saturday former President Trump claimed his campaign had been hacked |
| 0:35.7 | and suggested Iran was to blame. It stems from a Microsoft report one day earlier |
| 0:41.2 | detailing a spearfishing incident from June, where Iranian military |
| 0:45.8 | intelligence sent fake emails to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign |
| 0:51.0 | from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor. |
| 0:55.0 | It's unclear what the breach achieved, but several media organizations say they have received |
| 1:00.0 | anonymous emails with documents from the VP vetting process. |
| 1:04.5 | The FBI is now investigating the hack. |
| 1:07.2 | But the incident didn't distract the former president from peddling lies about his opponent. |
| 1:12.3 | Trump reposted an image of a Harris rally in Detroit last week, |
| 1:16.0 | falsely claiming she used artificial intelligence to fabricate the crowd size. |
| 1:21.0 | Photos and videos from the event showing thousands of supporters gathered at an airplane hangar easily disprove the conspiracy theory. |
| 1:29.0 | In response, the Harris campaign posted, |
| 1:32.0 | this is an actual photo of a 15,000 person crowd for Harris |
| 1:36.0 | Wall in Michigan. |
| 1:39.0 | Meanwhile at a rally in Las Vegas, Harris made a new pitch to service workers, a key constituency in Nevada. |
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