“Cheap fakes”
Deceptive selective editing has been around a whole lot longer than credible deepfakes.
(Cf. Sasha Issenberg’s recent conversation with Chris Hayes on MDM and its responses.)
Category Archives: chicanery
“Fake Donations Helped a Candidate Get $162,000 From Taxpayers”
The N.Y. Times with the report on matching funds in a state Assembly race that’s something of an outlier:
The report also contrasts the state system with the city’s system:
For years, government watchdogs had urged state leaders to adopt… Continue reading
Update on the DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force
States Newsroom with a states’-eye view on the federal efforts. Despite 17 charges to date, and hefty sentences in some of those cases, the wheels of justice necessarily turn slowly. And election officials are also not thrilled about the… Continue reading
North Carolina: “Surprise GOP campaign finance law proposal prompts walkout by Democratic senators”
NC Newsline:
in a surprise move that caught most Legislative Building watchers off-guard, Republican lawmakers unveiled legislation on Thursday that would make significant changes to state campaign finance law. The sudden move prompted all 20 Senate Democrats to walk out… Continue reading
“‘Swindlers,’ ‘Hijacking,’ and ‘Blackmail’; Inside the Kennedy campaign’s Natural Law Party meltdown in Florida.”
Must-read Marc Caputo:
AMID VOTER DISENCHANTMENT with a Trump-Biden rematch, third-party activist Joseph Wendt believed 2024 could transform American politics. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be the candidate to do it.
“It seemed this was the Year of the… Continue reading
“The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: ‘Fight Fire With Fire’”
NYT:
Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony conviction in New York.
Within hours of a jury finding Mr. Trump guilty last week, the anger… Continue reading
“Cracks emerge in Michigan’s criminal cases against false Trump electors”
Detroit News:
The Michigan attorney general’s cases against 15 Republicans whose names appeared on a certificate falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election could be in jeopardy as prosecutors have struggled to supply evidence to back up charges that… Continue reading
“Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul charges former Trump associates in fake elector scheme”
Molly Beck for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed felony forgery charges against an aide and two attorneys who worked for former President Donald Trump in 2020 for their part in designing and executing a… Continue reading
“Intelligence chairman says US may be less prepared for election threats than it was four years ago”
AP:
With only five months before voters head to the polls, the U.S. may be more vulnerable to foreign disinformation aimed at influencing voters and undermining democracy than it was before the 2020 election, the leader of the Senate Intelligence… Continue reading
“Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign”
ProPublica:
Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company.
The benefits… Continue reading
“Likely Trump Hush Money Appeal Could Center on New York Election Law Theory”
National Law Journal:
Erica Hashimoto, who directs the Georgetown Law Appellate Litigation Program, said Trump’s appellate lawyers could challenge the three “unlawful means” that the jury was told to consider. These three are violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act,… Continue reading
“Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction”
Ryan Reilly for NBC News:
The 34 felony guilty verdicts returned Thursday against former President Donald Trump spurred a wave of violent rhetoric aimed at the prosecutors who secured his conviction, the judge who oversaw the case and the ordinary… Continue reading
Breaking: Donald Trump Becomes First Convicted Felon to Run as a Major Party Presumptive Nominee for President; What’s Next?
Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of the charges against him. He is the first former President convicted of any felony and the first major party candidate to run for office as a convicted felon. Trump… Continue reading
“Experts Question Alito’s Failure to Recuse Himself in Flag Controversy”
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
Supreme Court justices seldom give reasons for their decisions to recuse themselves. Even rarer are explanations for deciding to participate in a case when they have been accused of conflicts of interest.
Justice Samuel A.… Continue reading