Political manipulation
Political manipulation - Use or misuse of personal data to target individuals’ interests, personalities and vulnerabilities with tailored political messages via micro-advertising or deepfakes/synthetic media.
ENTITY
1 - Human
INTENT
1 - Intentional
TIMING
2 - Post-deployment
Risk ID
mit984
Domain lineage
4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
4.1 > Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
Mitigation strategy
1. Mandate the implementation of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authentication (C2PA) standard across all generative-AI services, integrating both perceptible and imperceptible digital watermarks and embedded content credentials to establish the authenticity and origin of political media for both voters and fact-checking organizations. 2. Establish mandatory transparency regulations for political micro-targeting, requiring platforms and political actors to publish comprehensive logs detailing the criteria and methods used for audience segmentation and advertisement delivery to enable public scrutiny and remedial counterspeech. 3. Enact and strictly enforce legislation that requires clear and conspicuous disclosure for all political communications materially altered or generated by artificial intelligence, coupled with the adoption of a "Know-Your-Customer" framework for generative service users to mitigate anonymous malfeasance.