On January 22nd, tens of thousands of New Hampshire residents received a robocall of "President Joe Biden" imploring them to stay home. It was quickly determined that this was a deepfake sent en masse to constituents to sway the state election from a political operative, who was since fined $6 million by the FCC and used as precedent to make other similar calls illegal going forward.
What Did Reality Defender Find?
The Reality Defender team found the audio to be reminiscent of common text-to-speech audio deepfakes, likely produced on a popular audio deepfake website.