The FBI warns voters about inauthentic videos related to election security

The FBI issued a statement Saturday about fraudulent videos circulating in the run-up to the election, saying it was aware that two such videos “falsely claim to be from the FBI and relate to election security.” These include a claim that the FBI has “arrested three affiliated groups committing election fraud” and a claim about Kamala Harris' husband. Both presented false content, the FBI said.

Disinformation – including the spread of political deepfakes and other forms of misleading videos and images – has been a major problem in the run-up to the US presidential election. In its statement released on X, the FBI added:

Just a day earlier, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said they had traced two additional videos to “Russian influence actors,” including one “falsely depicting individuals claiming , being from Haiti and voting illegally in several counties in Georgia.”