{"id":230816,"date":"2026-06-12T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/how-d-c-s-political-campaigns-are-and-arent-using-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:35:12","slug":"how-d-c-s-political-campaigns-are-and-arent-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/how-d-c-s-political-campaigns-are-and-arent-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How D.C.&#8217;s political campaigns are (and aren&#8217;t) using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/51st.news\/dc-election-2026-ai-artificial-intelligence\/\">How D.C.&#8217;s political campaigns are (and aren&#8217;t) using AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/51st.news\/dc-election-2026-ai-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/51st.news\/dc-election-2026-ai-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 14:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"51st.news\">51st.news<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vincent Orange&#8217;s mayoral campaign is powered by AI, emphasizing experienced leadership, real results, and public safety as key priorities.<\/li>\n<li>Several D.C. mayoral and council candidates employ AI for campaign content, research, data analysis, and soundbites, but the technology&#8217;s use is largely unregulated.<\/li>\n<li>AI has accelerated campaign operations and reduced costs and time, though concerns regarding ethics, transparency, and trust persist.<\/li>\n<li>The use of AI-generated deepfakes poses significant threats to election integrity, leading to calls for legislation to regulate their use.<\/li>\n<li>Legislative efforts to restrict AI in political communications have not passed, despite support for disclosure requirements and penalties for misinformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How D.C.&#8217;s political campaigns are (and aren&#8217;t) using AI https:\/\/51st.news\/dc-election-2026-ai-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-12 14:28:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/2b\/3d\/2b3d300b-7e29-48a2-a844-f5d2c5e04125\/content\/images\/size\/w1200\/2026\/06\/Ghost-Lede-Image---9-.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230818,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230816\/revisions\/230818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}