Elections Alberta says spoof site exposed gap in deepfake law

Alberta’s chief electoral officer says a website that impersonated Elections Alberta exposed what he says is a gap in the province’s new election disinformation rules, leaving his office without authority to investigate.Gordon McClure, who oversees provincial elections, said the incident highlighted a limitation in Alberta’s recently enacted deepfake provisions, which target misleading deepfakes involving candidates but do not cover website impersonation or other forms of onli