2024: the year of elections - and rampant disinformation

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2024: the year of elections - and rampant disinformation
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This year will determine whether disinformation can truly subvert our political processes, or if we are more resilient than we think.

false information to deceive and mislead others – can take many forms. From edited “deepfake” videos made on smartphones to vast foreign-led information operations, politics and elections show how varied disinformation can be., with the majority of the world’s population going to the polls, including in South Africa, 2024 will also be a year of lessons learnt, where we will see whether disinformation can truly subvert our political processes or if we are more resilient than we think.

Bearing headlines such as “90% back remain”, they were imitation newspapers created and disseminated by the UK’s major political parties. These types of publication, which some voters thought were legitimate news publications, led to the Electoral Commission Just two weeks ago, the US congressional Republicans’ impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden began to fall apart when it was revealed that a witness was. AI allows computers to carry out tasks that could previously have only been done by humans. So AI and AI-enabled tools can carry out very sophisticated tasks with low effort from humans and at low cost.Disinformation can be both mediated and enabled by AI.

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