2024-09-27
16 分钟Leaders from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft told the Senate Intelligence Committee that they were doing all they could to combat foreign interference ahead of the November election. The senators weren't convinced.
Leaders at Google, Microsoft, and Meta appeared before the Senate intelligence committee last week.
They were on the Hill to assure members of the committee that big Tech was doing all it could to battle foreign interference ahead of the November election.
If you want to see the risks that we should be thinking about, I will go back to Slovakia.
This is Microsoft President Brad Smith.
Smith said that just days before an election there, an audio recording appeared on Facebook.
The voice sounds very much like one of the leaders of Slovakias largest political parties, and in the audio he openly is boasting about rigging the election.
He can be heard saying he bought votes from the nation's marginalized Roma population.
The tape was a deepfake, and Smith said it had all the hallmarks of a russian influence campaign.
That same day, they released it on Telegram, which tends to be the Russians favored distribution channel.
To get things going.
They did it from what was the private account of the spouse of a major official in Slovakia.
Just two days before the vote, the tape hit like an earthquake, and Brad Smith worries that something like that could happen here, too.
Not now, necessarily, but instead, just before people start going to the polls, the.
Most perilous moment will come, I think 48 hours before the election.
Thats the lesson to be learned from, say, the slovakian election last fall and other races we have seen.
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