Voters in New Hampshire were treated in January to a call purporting to be from President Biden telling them not to vote in the primary. After a brief but intense investigation, the perpetrator has been revealed to be Life Corporation, a Texas-based company that has been caught slinging disinformation before.
The calls in New Hampshire were noted by the state attorney general in mid-January and an investigation into this attempt at voter suppression was begun. Now it is also clear, from matching press releases from California AG Rob Bontaand the FCC, that other agencies and authorities were immediately brought in.
Presumably the phone tree of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, which covers just about the whole nation, lit up when the AI-generated Biden calls went through. It wasn’t just a robocall — it was impersonation of the president and a variety of other offenses as well.
The fake Biden calls the New Hampshire primary “a bunch of malarkey” and tells people to “save your vote for the November election.” In case you’re curious, here’s what the call sounded like (courtesy of New Hampshire’s AG office):
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