Brad Smith, the president of technology giant Microsoft, on Wednesday issued a stark warning regarding foreign attempts to influence the US presidential election in November. “The most perilous moment will come, I think, 48 hours before the election,” Smith told a US Senate hearing on Wednesday. “That’s the lesson to be learned from, say, the Slovakian election last fall.” Smith said two days ahead of the parliamentary election vote in the European country “a Russian group” released and pushed, including by amplifying the story with a top Russian official, a deep fake audio purporting to revea…