Russia, China, Iran use AI disinformation to meddle in elections in U.S., other countries

Election season will soon be in full swing in much of the democratic world. Many of those elections matter a lot to the countries that have run social media influence operations in the past. File Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI | License Photo Oct. 2 (UPI) — Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the U.S. presidential election. Over the next seven years, a number of…