Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same

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Title	Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.qaexfv33g
Authors	Barnes, Renee, Mulcahy, Rory, Whittaker, Lucas, Riedel, Aimee
Abstract	If left unchallenged, political deep fake videos could have profound impacts on Australian elections.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	9	38%
United States	1	4%
United Kingdom	1	4%
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	1	4%
Fiji	1	4%
Unknown	11	46%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	22	92%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	8%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 154. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 March 2026.

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