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The year 2024 will be the biggest ever year for voting. National elections will take place in around 64 countries, as well as in the European Union. An estimated two billion people – almost half the global population – could vote at some time this year. The results of these polls will bring big changes for the future of many people. Voters in the world's four largest electoral blocs – the EU, India, Indonesia and the USA – will be casting their votes. One of the first contests will be in Taiwan on January the 13th. For much of the year, eyes will be focused on events in the US. In November, there will be a repeat of the 2020 election if Donald Trump runs for President again.
Journalists are worried about how free and fair many elections will be. The website Bloomberg.com has already posed a question that is on the lips of many people. It asked: "Will 2024 be the year fake news destroys democracy?" Bloomberg said bad actors will use artificial intelligence to change the way people vote via phoney news articles. It said there will be "a storm of disinformation and digital manipulation unlike anything the world has ever seen". It added that disinformation has already begun to spread, and that this "gets harder to spot as fake with every passing month". Fact checkers will have to work extra hard to reduce the number of AI-based posts on social media.
- In how many countries will national elections be held in 2024?
- What proportion of the world's voters could vote this year?
- What electoral bloc will vote besides India, Indonesia and the USA?
- When will Taiwan go to the polls?
- What could the 2024 presidential election be a repeat of?
- Who is worried about elections being fair and free?
- What did Bloomberg.com pose that is in the lips of many people?
- Who did Bloomberg say would use AI to change how people vote?
- What did Bloomberg say had already begun to spread?
- Who will have to work extra hard to reduce AI-based posts?
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