A fake image of a Georgia mayor kissing a person went viral. Can US voters trust everything they see?

Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public An image of Bianca Motley Broom, the mayor of College Park, Georgia, kissing a man who was not her husband in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook.

The fact that it was fake is spreading faster, now, but only after it had been seen by thousands of people. “I think this is a sad commentary about where…