• Misinformation, disinformation surrounded Thai 2023 election

    A surge of misinformation and disinformation marked the Thai 2023 election, some of which appeared to be strategically orchestrated for political advantage. This coincided with the advent of democracy, seen for the first time in almost nine years after military rule.

  • Mozilla urges WhatsApp to combat misinformation ahead of global elections

    In 2024, four billion people — about half the world’s population — in 64 countries including large democracies like the US and India, will head to the polls. Social media companies like Meta, YouTube and TikTok, have promised to protect the integrity of those elections, at least as far as discourse and factual claims being made on their platforms are concerned. Missing from the conversation, however, is closed messaging app WhatsApp, which now rivals public social media platforms in both scope...

  • AI Briefing: How AI misinformation affects consumer thoughts on elections and brands

    To boost its efforts around brand safety, IPG is adding more tools for identifying harmful content while also helping advertisers avoid appearing near it.

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    Inside Google’s Plans to Combat Misinformation Ahead of the E.U. Elections

    'Prebunking' is Google's latest effort to combat misinformation ahead of the E.U. elections

  • Election Results: April 2024 Primary Election

    (WBRE/WYOU) — 28/22 News is Your Local Election Headquarters. Check back here throughout the night for the latest local and state election results. Election results will start to populate the page after 8:00 p.m.

  • Erie Co. elections gearing up for successful Election Day

    Election Day is one week away and staff at the Erie County Elections Office are busy putting the final touches on everything for the big day. The director of elections Tonia Fernandez said Tuesday was the last day to apply for a ballot to vote early and the last day to submit an application for []

  • Elections bill could have bigger impact for St. Cloud elections

    A bill that would ease student voting access and reallocate prisoners in the Census could affect St. Cloud, which has 10,000 college students and about 1,000 state prisoners, in future elections.

  • The GOP's "election integrity" lawyer was just indicted for election subversion

    The attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of the phrase “election integrity,” as used by Trump and the Republican Party: An effort to win […]

  • Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you

    I’m one of the 2.5 million users of Slovene – and English and German speakers would do well to be curious about usA couple of years ago, I received an invitation from a German cultural institution to present my debut short story collection, which was translated into German that year. The terms and conditions were generous: we pay you (a lot, as far as I was concerned), we host you for as long as you wish (I decided on three nights), we will arrange a host who loves your book – and if you need...

  • Sheffield City Council elections: the leader of the Green Party is seeking re-election

    Neither Cllr Tom Hunt, the leader of the council, nor Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, have to stand this year – but Cllr Douglas Johnson from the Green Party does. Cllr Johnson, the leader of his group, was able to win comfortably in 2021 and now he is aiming to do that again, keeping the City ward a Green ward. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I’m a councillor for City ward, I was elected in 2016 and again in 2021. “I chair the council’s housing...

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    Indonesia court rejects election disputes, upholding president-elect Prabowo's win

    JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the disqualification of winner Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, bringing an end to all election disputes. The Constitutional Court ruled that there was no evidence of systematic fraud and presidential "meddling", nor that state bodies, regional officials and social assistance had been mobilised to sway polls in the world's third-largest...

  • Indonesia election: Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

    Rivals had said February election won by former general was undermined by state interference and unfair rule changesIndonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his win by rival candidates.Prabowo, 72, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, won a landslide victory in February’s elections, but his two opponents claimed that the vote had been undermined by...