Why Post-Truth-Based Cognitive Electoral Campaigns Can Erode Democracies of Opinion. How deep lies with an audiovisual base based on generative neural networks affect this type of campaign

If we can agree that each person can have their own opinion on any subject, no one is entitled to have his own facts on such subjects. This, which was true in the analog paradigm, may cease to be true in the virtual reality paradigm, especially when these facts can be falsified in such a precise, efficient and inexpensive way that reality can cease to be what it has been until now to become a field of eccentricities, doubts, omissions of intentional design and certainties built ad hoc.

The protection of the truth in the democracy of the XXI century is the essence that must be preserved in the face of the attacks that are going to increase, first it was the Fake News, now it is the Deepfakes and we will see new dimensions of these informational pathologies, but both they have a common denominator, their attack on the truth by misrepresenting the facts. Being the objective of these distortions of a very diverse nature, the objectives of electoral manipulation are those that will occupy us in this work since they affect a core element of opinion democracy, a public opinion nurtured by non-toxic tributaries that allow citizens form truthful judgments based on true facts.

Table of Contents
1. Preliminary considerations.
2. What are deepfakes?
3. The Antagonic Generative Neural Networks.
4. An approach to how to legally face the challenge of Deepfakes.
5. Electoral cognitive propaganda and micro-segmentation.
6. The regulation in Spain of virtual cognitive electoral campaigns.
7. Can the public interest be a sufficient basis to severely limit fundamental values, principles and rights?
8. The breakdown of the common public space and polarization can lead to self-censorship
9. Deepfakes are aimed at exploiting emotions.
10. A new right “The right not to be deceived”.