Tag: elections
2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election
Experts know that generative AI is poised to drastically change the information landscape, and problems that have long plagued tech platforms—like mis- and disinformation,...
How AI Is Impacting the 2024 Elections
In India and Indonesia, dead leaders are rising to throw their support behind their political successors; rapper Eminem is endorsing opposition parties in South...
You Can Get Paid to Talk to Friends About Voting
In Tonya Williams’ Mississippi family, they all vote. But last year, Williams’ uncle mentioned offhandedly that he hadn’t voted in an election for several...
Inside the Reluctant Fight to Ban Deepfake Ads
This is all great, but voters are probably going to encounter more digital fakes online than over broadcast. And for digital ads, the government...
Los Gatos voters to decide on one-eighth cent sales tax hike...
Los Gatos voters will be asked to decide this fall whether to approve a one-eighth cent sales tax hike.The Los Gatos Town Council voted ...
A Far-Right Indian News Site Posts Racist Conspiracies. US Tech Companies...
“The goal is to amplify this disinformation, and you have BJP leaders sharing this, so people think it’s authentic,” says Naik. “In the long...
Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates...
On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a...
Russian Disinfo Campaign Blames Ukraine for Shooting of Slovakia’s Prime Minister
Russia Today’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan went further in a comment on her Telegram channel, blaming Ukraine for the attack: “The Slovak Prime Minister is...
RFK Jr. Is Priming His Audience for Election Denialism
In 2006, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thought he was on to something big. In an article for Rolling Stone, he argued that the 2004...
The US Election Threats Are Clear. What to Do About Them...
On Wednesday, members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee questioned senior national security officials on how they plan to respond to attacks on voting...