Jason’s prediction matches what happened in the run‑up to the 5 November 2024 U.S. election. In the final 10–12 days, U.S. intelligence agencies and fact‑checkers repeatedly warned about and debunked viral fake‑election videos on social media: a Russian‑made video showing supposed mail‑in ballots for Donald Trump being ripped up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which racked up hundreds of thousands of views on X before officials declared it fake; and a separate viral video of a man claiming, falsely, to be a Haitian immigrant voting multiple times for Kamala Harris in Georgia, which the FBI and other agencies also identified as manufactured by Russian influence actors just four days before Election Day. (theguardian.com) These were part of a broader wave of Russian and other foreign disinformation operations that, according to U.S. intelligence, relied heavily on fabricated media and were expected to intensify in the immediate lead‑up to voting. (en.wikipedia.org) While analysts later judged that AI deepfakes did not completely transform the election, there were notable AI‑generated or AI‑manipulated pieces of political media in 2024—including widely shared deepfake‑style videos and audio of Kamala Harris circulated on X months before the vote—which demonstrated exactly the kind of synthetic content Jason was concerned about. (nationalsecuritynews.com) Taken together, the documented surge of viral, demonstrably false election content in the last week or two—some of it involving AI‑generated or heavily manipulated media—means his qualitative forecast of “a lot of fake news, maybe even deepfakes” during that period was borne out.