Fake news threatens to destroy democracy

Fake news threatens to destroy democracy
Global platforms are being used to spread messages that distort or ignore the truth. (Image: Depositphotos)
Bloomberg
By Mihir Sharma In 2024, democracy will face a test for which it is unready. For the first time since the internet age began, the world’s four largest electoral blocs – India, the European Union, the US and Indonesia – will hold general elections in the same year. Almost a billion people may go to the polls in the next 12 months, amid a storm of disinformation and digital manipulation unlike anything the world has yet seen.The stakes are extraordinarily consequential for the future of democracy itself:● In the US, the ele...

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