Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote on Tuesday

stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to politics @lemmy.world – 285 points – Fake Joe Biden robocall tells New Hampshire Democrats not to vote on Tuesday
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The call, an apparent imitation or digital manipulation of the president's voice, says, "Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again."

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Doesn't this ultimately backfire and train ppl to not blindly follow information?

It goes both ways. They ignore real and fake messages

That may not have been the point of the robo calls, but it definitely works towards the Republican's agenda.

And the government and the telcos let this shit happen because to fix it would cost rich people money and we can't have that.

Republicans will never stop trying to steal elections.

Seems like the vast majority of voter fraud crimes surrounding the 2020 election were engineered by Republicans. In my neck of the woods, all three caught voting with dead relatives' ballots were registered as Republican. Two ladies (R) thought they could register as their non-voting kids, and wouldn't have been caught except that the kids decided to vote. The sole Democrat was a guy who provisionally voted while he was still on parole.

Nationally, all the big vote tampering was done by Republicans.

I would hope that if people are voting for Biden that they are smart enough to not fall for these kinds of things. I could definitely see Trump supporters falling for something like this if Donald Trump called them, but I hope that Biden supporters are a little smarter.

It starts... This will be the year to decide if we can have functioning information systems and safe, democratic elections in the emerging age of easy AI manipulation.

It's a bad sign that there are no widely, commercially available free tools (from governments or otherwise) to help us confirm the validity of these things. We likely need something as ubiquitous as "googling" to stand against the incoming avalanche of truly fake information.

There will be elections across the globe this year to truly test humanity. I'm hopeful, but I fear we aren't close to ready. Think about what you would do if you suspected a political manipulation was AI generated today? That's one aspect, and you're on Lemmy so you're likely a bit more capable with technology generally (and you probably still don't know what to do). Now, think about your grandmother in Milwaukee... what will she do?

Now there's an idea. Let's do the same thing with Trump's voice. His base is stupid enough to obey.

I don't get it. How does a message telling Democrats not to vote help Republicans in the primary?

I think this is the reason:

New Hampshire holds closed primaries, which means Democrats and Republicans can only vote in their own party’s primaries. But independent voters, those who are not affiliated with either party, can vote in either primary — and they make up nearly 40 percent of New Hampshire’s electorate.

So really, independent voters who lean left are being encouraged to stay home. Presumably this helps the far-right candidate.

It's to throw off Nikki Haley winning the nomination. She's VERY popular in NH. I'm up there playing in the snow and ice every weekend and see a more NH than Trump signs.

This is definitely a plausible explanation but I'm trying to figure why those people would listen to Joe Biden

They are (I) voters that are likely to vote (D) in the general and there is a serious attempt to ratfuck Trump in NH by getting these left leaning (I) voters to vote Haley in the (R) primary.

So... this fake robocall is an Uno reverse card ratfuck trying to get those people to stay home.

This exactly. Hell, I live in MA and I'm trying to rat-fuck the primaries.

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What are democrats voting for, on tuesday? Isn't it the republican primary?