TrueMedia, an AI watchdog partnered with Microsoft, claims to be a non-partisan outfit that informs the public and policymakers about the proliferation of AI deepfakes designed to mislead voters during elections. In a glowing New York Times profile earlier this year presenting him as a foremost expert on the topic, University of Washington professor Oren Etzioni warned that AI could unleash a “tsunami of misinformation” during elections.
Recent events suggest that claims about neutral, non-partisan expertise on “misinformation” should be approached with caution. As FFO exposed in an extensive report published in 2022, the ostensibly neutral election integrity partnership, created at the behest of DHS, played a pivotal role in ensuring the suppression of legitimate political discourse up to and around the 2020 election, with millions of posts throttled as a result of the EIP’s activities.
What’s more, the partnership’s activities were overwhelmingly partisan in its impact: every single social media account identified as a “repeat misinformation spreader” by EIP was associated with the political right.
6:58 am on October 4, 2024Microsoft Backed AI ‘Deepfake’ Watchdog Includes Election Integrity Partnership Alumni
