WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI warned Americans on Tuesday about two new fake videos falsely invoking terrorist threats and voter fraud, the latest in a string of misinformation that officials expect to intensify as voters head to the polls on election day.

A fabricated video purporting to be from the federal law enforcement agency falsely cited an elevated terrorist threat and urged Americans to “vote remotely,” while another video included a fake press release purporting to be from the agency and alleging rigged voting among inmates in five prisons. .

Both are “not genuine,” the FBI said in a statement, “attempts to mislead the public with false content about the FBI’s threat assessments and activities are intended to undermine our democratic process and erode trust in the election system.” .

Federal, state and local officials have warned Americans about attempts to undermine the election with misinformation and urged American voters to seek credible information from trusted sources.

As of 11 a.m. EST (1400 GMT), there was little evidence of any real or widespread disruption.

Cait Conley, a senior official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in a press briefing Tuesday that CISA is not currently pursuing any domestic incidents affecting the security of U.S. election infrastructure, although she warned that foreign actors they might try to make it seem otherwise. .

“As we’ve said repeatedly, we’re likely to see more of this activity today and in the coming weeks, with a particular focus on influence narratives affecting swing states,” Conley said.

On Monday, US intelligence agencies said they expected foreign influence operations to “intensify on Election Day and in the weeks ahead,” particularly in the seven battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Carolina of North Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

However, the director of the US Cybersecurity Agency, Jen Easterly, said her department had not seen evidence of any activity that could have a direct impact on the outcome of Tuesday’s election.

US intelligence agencies last week blamed Russia for a fake video purporting to show a Haitian immigrant claiming to have voted multiple times in the US state of Georgia. Over the weekend, the FBI warned of several more fake videos.

Russia usually denies meddling in American politics.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey, Raphael Satter, James Pearson and AJ Vicens; Editing by Andrea Ricci and Alistair Bell)