Fake Biden Voice in Robocall Misleads New Hampshire Democratic Voters in 2024 Primary Election
- Occurred
- Jan 21, 2024
- Published
- May 15, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A robocall imitating President Biden's voice urged New Hampshire Democrats to skip the 2024 primary, falsely claiming their votes mattered more in November. Investigators with the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, along with other state AGs, the Industry Traceback Group, and the FCC determined that political consultant Steve Kramer hired Paul Carpenter to create the deepfake, which was distributed by Walter Monk's company, Life Corporation. Rep. Dean Phillips, who employed Kramer, has distanced himself from the incident. Kathy Sullivan, the former New Hampshire Democratic Party chair, was falsely impersonated in the caller ID data used for the robocalls.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- New Hampshire voters
- Kathy Sullivan
- Democratic integrity
- Joe Biden
Tags
- deepfake
- deepfake audio
- politics
- elections
- response
Classification
Rationale: Synthetic voice impersonation used to mislead voters in an election, involving legal investigation and regulatory action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8