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Yeah if you dont plan on using the Smart TV for video calls find the camera lens and put some black electrical tape over it. The TV itself or remote may also be miked. 🙄 Those TVs are two-way communications devices and so are some voice remotes - for instance: my Roku remote has voice but the button has to be pushed for the mic to be open.

Yikes! I've always kept tape or a piece of paper taped over the camera on my laptops. Felt weird having that staring at me. LOL Will do on the TV, too. Never was sure what, if anything, could be done with the mike. I occasionally scream out, "F U Deep State!" just in case they're listening. (Not really, but I have said it out loud a few times. :) Thanks!

tape or a piece of paper taped over the camera on my laptops.

Something weird happened once recently using the camera on my tablet, reversed on it’s own and
the square box started tracking my face on the screen. My next step is the tape too.

Lol - thats true, mics are tougher to blocks than lenses.

off the top of my head if I had Smart tv and didnt want the mic to work I would figure out a way to short it out and that should not affect the other circuitry UNLESS the engineers designed the mic being sabotaged to screw up the TV

Who knows, maybe the mic Calls Home and says Help Me ive been Attacked!