Have Deepfakes influenced the 2020 Election?

Media manipulation through images and videos has been around for decades. For example, in WWII Mousollini released a propaganda image of himself on a horse with his horse handler edited out. The goal was to make himself seem more impressive and powerful [1]. These types of tricks can have significant impacts given the scale of people that see images like these, especially in the internet era. DARPA has an entire program constructed just to develop methods for detecting manipulated media through their media forensics (MEDIFOR) [2].