Bad case of title gore, but due to the topic, I did not editorialize. Basically, Elon Musk's political action committee "America Pac" is using a phone app crea

Bad case of title gore, but due to the topic, I did not editorialize. Basically, Elon Musk's political action committee "America Pac" is using a phone app created with third party vendors in order to coordinate paid door-to-door canvassing for voter sentiment/preference collection for campaign purposes on behalf of Republican candidates and Donald Trump. This app is apparently able to be spoofed using GPS spoofing apps on the same device as the America Pac app, allowing for fake reports to be submitted through the app, in order to get paid without actually doing the work. America Pac and the vendors deny that this GPS spoofing is sufficient to fool the app. This may not be a small problem or isolated incident: > Blitz – the vendor in Arizona and Nevada – has its canvassers clock in and clock out using the “Quickbooks Workforce” app, which continually tracks locations and has some geofence features, according to two people directly familiar with the situation. > But the geolocation data stored on the Workforce app can be manipulated by turning off location services – and one former Blitz auditor said they would typically only review the secondary location data if something first appeared amiss on the canvassing app Campaign Sidekick itself. > The video comes as America Pac has struggled to grapple with 24% of the door knocks in Arizona and 25% of the door knocks done in Nevada last week – by less sophisticated cheaters working for Blitz – being flagged internally as potentially faked or fraudulent, according to data obtained by the Guardian. If 1/4 of payouts were fraudulent for any kind of work, that would be kind of a big deal, imo. This also has concerns regarding the validity or lack thereof of the data submitted by users of the GPS spoofing; if they are willing to spoof location data for doors never knocked, they are also likely to spoof the data they are being paid to never gather. This reminds me of similar GPS spoofing hacks that used to work for Pokémon GO back in the day. https://archive.is/j3dqs https://archive.is/j3dqs Related/previous reporting: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/19/trump-campaign-leaked-data-voters-elon-musk https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/19/trump-campai... https://archive.is/3AjQX https://archive.is/3AjQX