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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleNov. 19, 2025, 5:00 AM ESTBy Megan LebowitzFormer House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that she would not seek re-election capped off a decades-long tenure in Congress and the top echelons of the Democratic Party. Now, her departure also sets up a clearer picture of the race to be San Francisco’s next representative in the House — and of how Democrats want to chart the future of their party at a moment of generational change.The two main contenders for Pelosi’s district — Scott Wiener, a California state senator, and Saikat Chakrabarti, the former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — had already jumped into the race ahead of Pelosi’s decision. Others could jump into the California race ahead of next June’s all-party primary, but already the two existing candidates’ views reflect different wings of the Democratic Party. In interviews with NBC News, Wiener said that he has a record of building diverse coalitions and delivering on legislation, while Chakrabarti touted his push for “whole scale, structural change.” The perspectives reflect the wider party debate about whether to seek political change more through practical advances within existing systems or rather by overhauling those longstanding systems entirely. Saikat Chakrabarti at the Capitol Visitor Center in 2019.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty ImagesIt’s not the first time the race to succeed a former speaker also serves as a litmus test for the future of the party. After then-House Speaker John Boehner stepped down in 2015, the crowded GOP primary to fill his Ohio seat echoed the Republican Party’s broader debate over its future. Rep. Warren Davidson ultimately won the seat with the backing of the anti-establishment conservative Club for Growth, which had previously sparred with Boehner. Neither Wiener nor Chakrabarti believed that Pelosi’s announcement changed much about the dynamics of the race. Wiener predicted that Chakrabarti, who had been focusing much of his attention on Pelosi, would pivot to attacking the state senator instead. Chakrabarti said that he believed the race wasn’t just about the former speaker, but the Democratic Party needing “wholesale change.”“In my opinion, the real moment right now in the Democratic Party is, do we want to go back to the politics as usual?” Chakrabarti said in an interview, framing his opponent as “part of that normal establishment politics.”Across the divide, Wiener presented himself as the candidate who could actually deliver. “It’s not enough to just say that you want to accomplish X, Y and Z and to make videos about it, you need to give voters confidence that you know how to actually deliver on those promises around housing, health care, energy and so forth,” Wiener said, referencing Chakrabarti’s social media presence. State Sen. Scott Wiener in Sacramento, Calif., in 2022.Rich Pedroncelli / AP fileWiener’s website touts the candidate’s record “authoring and passing more than 100 state laws,” pointing to his push to advance housing and pro-LGBTQ issues. Chakrabarti disputed Wiener’s questions about whether he can deliver legislatively. He emphasized his role in crafting the Green New Deal, a progressive set of policy goals, and asserted that when people mobilized around climate, it forced Democratic presidential candidates to embrace environmental proposals in 2019 and 2020. Chakrabarti argued that the push contributed to former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which included billions of dollars to fight climate change. Pelosi has not yet weighed in on the race, and she told NBC News last week that making an endorsement was not her “current plan.”Chakrabarti declined to share whether he was in talks about potential endorsements with the likes of Ocasio-Cortez or Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Chakrabarti worked on Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. Chakrabarti acknowledged that if he’s elected in 2026, while Republicans still control the White House, he would not be able to push forward on goals like enacting a universal health care system or developing a national bank to “fund, finance and develop affordable housing.” Instead, he said his initial goals would be “defending” constituents from Trump administration policies like immigration raids and troop deployment and working to “force the conversation” on anti-corruption issues.If elected, Wiener emphasized wanting to elevate housing as a bigger issue at the federal level. Asked about similarities and differences with Pelosi, he noted that he is “very aligned” with her on issues like expanding health care access and said he was “a huge admirer of her work.”“I’m my own person, and we have lots of shared values and priorities, and I have priorities that are my own,” he said.Megan LebowitzMegan Lebowitz is a politics reporter for NBC News.Scott Wong contributed.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleNov. 19, 2025, 6:00 AM ESTBy Kevin CollierMany of the largest and most widely established state-sponsored online propaganda campaigns have embraced using artificial intelligence, a new report finds — and they’re often bad at it.The report, by the social media analytics company Graphika, analyzed nine ongoing online influence operations — including ones it says are affiliated with China’s and Russia’s governments — and found that each has, like much of social media, increasingly adopted generative AI to make images, videos, text and translations.The researchers found that sponsors of propaganda campaigns have come to rely on AI for core functions like making content and creating influencer personas on social media, streamlining some campaigns. But the researchers say that content is low quality and gets little engagement. The findings run counter to what many researchers had anticipated with the growing sophistication of generative AI — artificial intelligence that mimics human speech, writing and images in pictures and videos. The technology has rapidly become more advanced in recent years, and some experts warned that propagandists working on behalf of authoritarian countries would embrace high-quality, convincing synthetic content designed to deceive even the most discerning people in democratic societies.Resoundingly, though, the Graphika researchers found that the AI content created by those established campaigns is low-quality “slop,” ranging from unconvincing synthetic news reporters in YouTube videos to clunky translations or fake news websites that accidentally include AI prompts in headlines.“Influence operations have been systematically integrating AI tools, and a lot of it is low-quality, cheap AI slop,” said Dina Sadek, a senior analyst at Graphika and co-author of the report. As was the case before such campaigns started routinely using AI, the vast majority of their posts on Western social media sites receive little to no attention, she said.Online influence campaigns aimed at swaying American politics and pushing divisive messages go back at least a decade, when the Russia-based Internet Research Agency created scores of Facebook and Twitter accounts and tried to influence the 2016 presidential election.As in some other fields, like cybersecurity and programming, the rise of AI hasn’t revolutionized the field of online propaganda, but it has made it easier to automate some tasks, Sadek said.“It might be low-quality content, but it’s very scalable on a mass scale. They’re able to just sit there, maybe one individual pressing buttons there, to create all this content,” she said.Examples cited in the report include “Doppelganger,” an operation the Justice Department has tied to the Kremlin, which researchers say used AI to create unconvincing fake news websites, and “Spamoflauge,” which the Justice Department has tied to China and which creates fake AI news influencers to spread divisive but unconvincing videos on social media sites like X and YouTube. The report cited several operations that used low-quality deepfake audio.One example posted deepfakes of celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and former President Barack Obama, appearing to comment on India’s rise in global politics. But the report says the videos came off as unconvincing and didn’t get much traction.Another pro-Russia video, titled “Olympics Has Fallen,” seemed to be designed to denigrate the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. A nod to the 2013 Hollywood film “Olympus Has Fallen,” it starred an AI-generated version of Tom Cruise, who didn’t participate in either film. The report found it got little attention outside of a small echo chamber of accounts that normally share that campaign’s films.Spokespeople for China’s embassy in Washington, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, X and YouTube didn’t respond to requests for comment.Even if their efforts don’t reach many actual people, there is value for propagandists to flood the internet in the age of AI chatbots, Sadek said. The companies that develop those chatbots are constantly training their products by scraping the internet for text they can rearrange and spit back out.A recent study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit pro-democracy group, found that most major AI chatbots, or large language models, cite state-sponsored Russian news outlets, including some outlets that have been sanctioned by the European Union, in their answers.Kevin CollierKevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.
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