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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensbegrer addresses a video falsely depicting a Haitian migrant voting galore times during a Friday CNN appearance.
“As we checked it out, came to a decision existent quick. So we responded precise quickly, you know, connected Twitter and past besides with a property release, conscionable to fto radical cognize it's fake, don't autumn for it,” Raffensperger said. “Because successful effect, what radical privation to do, these federation authorities actors, is truly get america warring among ourselves.”
Earlier successful the video, Raffensperger debunked the video by assuring voters that individuals cannot person aggregate authorities IDs with the aforesaid name. The person attributed the video to “bad actors” who are trying to disagreement the nation.
“We've got capable that splits us. We don't request to person the Russians oregon different atrocious actors effort and divided america further,” helium said connected air. “So, you know, this was a week aft the Intel assemblage had said that a phony video showing fraud successful Pennsylvania was conscionable that, was phony, and that besides had travel from Russia.”
The FBI has publically addressed the uptick successful fake videos by urging voters to beryllium cautious of what they spot connected societal media. The bureau warned radical that accounts utilizing the name’s and images of candidates are being utilized to administer mendacious information.
“Election integrity is among our highest priorities, and the FBI is moving intimately with authorities and section instrumentality enforcement partners to respond to predetermination threats and support our communities arsenic Americans workout their close to vote,” the bureau said successful their statement. “Attempts to deceive the nationalist with mendacious contented astir FBI operations undermines our antiauthoritarian process and aims to erode spot successful the electoral system.”
