News Summary

• Conservative MP George Freeman was the subject of an AI-created fake that falsely claimed he had defected to a rival party, Reform.
• Freeman said platforms spreading the content are failing to respond.
• "There's no redress.
• There was no statement or principle that it was a problem," he said in Parliament yesterday, labeling the event a "serious disruption to democratic representation" Google, which owns YouTube, said it has policies about election ads which are aimed at ensuring that people are allowed to participate in free and fair elections.