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Political ads dominate the airwaves and our social media pages during election season -- that's nothing new. What is new, however, is the growing prevalence of AI deepfake ads. New research from Utah Valley University finds that voters aren't very good at distinguishing fake ads from real ones. And that's causing some real issues as we move towards election day. In fact, deepfake videos received equal or even higher credibility scores than their real counterparts... meaning voters often think a deepfake AI video is legitimate, while the real one is not. Director of the Emerging Tech Policy Lab at UVU, Brandon Amacher, joins the show to explain the study.

As Utah's primary election day quickly approaches, President Donald Trump is once again taking a swing at Utah's choice to largely use vote-by-mail. The President made a slew of comments about our election processes in a post on Truth Social, claiming that voting by mail forces states to vote more liberally. But that idea doesn't seem to hold any water here in Utah, where we've been voting by mail for more than a decade and still have a Republican supermajority. Greg and Holly share their thoughts and the reaction from state leaders to the President's comments.