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

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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...