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U.S.-listed shares of Brazil-based financial firms including Nu Holdings, Banco Bradesco and PagBank jumped by double-digit percentages in premarket trading Monday. The moves followed news that Brazil's presidential race is headed to a runoff.
Many states have passed laws requiring disclosure or banning deceptive AI-generated political content, especially close to elections. However, these measures vary widely and often rely on after-the-fact remedies like labeling or litigation rather than preventing fabricated videos from spreading in the first place.
Prominent election-denial figures, including Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts and online personality Catturd, are dismissing polls showing poor Republican midterm prospects as fabricated efforts to suppress conservative turnout. Trump has reportedly called polls fake 39 times since returning to office, per Media Matters for America, as multiple surveys show his approval at historic lows and Democrats leading Senate races in states he won in 2024. Reuters reported Republicans are now spending money defending races previously considered safe.
The Trump administration's new America.gov website includes an AI chatbot that, when asked who won the 2020 election, stated Biden won and Trump lost, citing federal election data. After media inquiries, the chatbot was updated to refuse election-related questions entirely, and it reportedly also disputed Trump's claims about illegal border crossings under Biden.
Newly disclosed internal emails reveal that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen contacted Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg eight days after the 2016 U.S. election, urging the company to label false stories and clamp down on Holocaust denial content. The correspondence came amid mounting criticism that misinformation on Facebook's platform had influenced the election outcome.
An interactive tutorial walks through TLA+, a formal specification language used to describe transition systems and verify their properties. It illustrates core concepts like states, actions, safety and liveness properties using a leader-election example among three computers, showing how a model checker can explore all possible states and surface counterexamples when rules are violated.
Ahead of Sweden's election, OSCE's ODIHR assessed the need for international observers and concluded none were required, citing high trust in the Swedish electoral system and the Election Authority's work. Since the election, several suspected electoral crimes have surfaced, including a Borlänge investigation into three people suspected of improper influence on voters, a separate corruption case, and suspected vote-buying in Piteå and Luleå. Nearly 10,000 appeals of the election result have been filed with the Election Review Board, far more than in previous elections.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published a plan detailing threats facing U.S. election systems ahead of November's midterm elections. The document also outlines services CISA is offering to state and local election officials to help safeguard voting infrastructure.
DoorDash spent roughly $1.4 million during the 2025 New York mayoral race opposing Zohran Mamdani and backing Andrew Cuomo, including a $1 million donation to the anti-Mamdani super PAC Fix the City. Mamdani won and his administration this week announced a $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash over underpayment of 264,000 delivery workers, the largest worker settlement in city history.
Patagonia is launching a program that pays people $100 for getting three friends or family members to vote in the upcoming November election. The initiative targets an estimated 11.2 million environmentally minded Americans who skipped the last election, using peer pressure and financial incentive to boost turnout.
Pew Research Center tested three techniques for detecting bogus respondents in online opt-in surveys: attention-check trap questions, CloudResearch's proprietary Sentry prescreening system, and matching respondents to a national voter file. The study, based on a survey of 11,114 U.S. adults fielded Nov. 14-19, 2024, evaluated each method against measures like yea-saying, open-ended response quality, and response order effects, as well as their impact on 2024 election turnout and vote-choice estimates.
Israeli lawmakers are increasingly enlisting artificial intelligence specialists to shape campaign strategy, including efforts to influence how chatbots respond to political queries. Campaigns are also producing AI-generated advertisements at a pace that outstrips the ability of election regulators to review or control them.