https://www.cnet.com/news/your-best-defense-against-midterm-misinformation-stay-off-social-media/

So far, the answer seems to be: not far enough.  

And it may get worse before it gets better. Deep fakes, aka videos manipulated with machine learning to turn almost anybody into an audio-visual puppet, haven't surfaced meaningfully leading up to the US midterms, according to Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth College. But accusations of deep fake videos have cropped up in elections in other parts of the world, most recently in Brazil, he said.