FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots by Jeremy Kohler and Doug Bock Clark July 15, 2026, 1:55 pm ++

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots As part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fulton County, Georgia, ProPublica has learned. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-2020-election-georgia-fulton-artificial-intelligence-fbi?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river by Jeremy Kohler and Doug Bock Clark July 15, 2026, 1:55 pm The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double The number of scammers trying to capitalize on immigrants’ fears by posing as lawyers and ICE agents has surged since Trump’s reelection, ProPublica found. Now, DHS says it is seeking to identify and find these fraudsters. by Naisha Roy, Medill Investigative Lab, and J. David McSwane, ProPublica July 16, 2026, 6:00 am https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-immigration-scams-fraud-homeland-security?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a sophisticated network of scammers who target people caught in immigration proceedings, bilking them of their savings and causing some to be deported, following a ProPublica report that complaints of such fraud doubled under the second administration of President Donald Trump.