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instructions to polling sites. In Democratic-leaning
districts, our messages said that additional ID was
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development, we used our access to city camera systems
to commission a deepfake video of poll workers
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together all the threads we’d strung during the game.
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same time, we released our two fake videos and
promoted them through our botnet of social media
accounts. We knew that once we used our access to the
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immediately. So we chose to post something that would
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saying that voting machines and voter rolls had been
hacked in Adversaria.
With that, the game was over.
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up buses to move people between polling locations,
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police were able to dispel our fake news. Thanks to our
subtle actions, though, we did manage to avoid arrest.
Curry gave us some pointers in case we ever want to
meddle in an election in the future. We should have
kept up the DDoS on the city’s 911 system and
introduced our fake news earlier in the day for
maximum impact. Developing a botnet was a good idea,
We used our
access to city
camera
systems to
commission a
deepfake video
of poll workers
throwing out
ballots.