{"id":119717,"date":"2023-12-15T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=119717"},"modified":"2023-12-18T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T20:53:26","slug":"election-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/election-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"How Social Media Is Handling AI Election Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did social media companies live up to promises to combat election misinformation after 2020? What new technological threats could undermine the 2024 elections? How are companies addressing election integrity issues this time around?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/internet-platform\/\">media platforms<\/a> face rising pressure to address new AI disinformation threats that could undermine the 2024 elections. Experts warn that companies\u2019 failure to address sophisticated &#8220;deep fakes&#8221; threatens American democracy and could lead to violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn how AI misinformation could affect the coming election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ai-generated-misinformation\">AI-Generated Misinformation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As the 2024 elections rapidly approach, social media giants face rising pressure to combat new threats posed by AI-generated election misinformation. Their actions\u2014or inaction\u2014could shape the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/future-of-democracy\/\">future of democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-background\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With billions of users, social media companies like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and X (formerly Twitter) have vast reach and influence. They can shape public opinion and impact US elections through the spread of information, both true and false. By 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/journalism\/2021\/01\/12\/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-in-2020\/#:~:text=About%20half%20of%20U.S.%20adults,7%2C%202020.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">53% of voters relied on social media for news and information<\/a>, underscoring the tech giants\u2019 significant role in election outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-managing-election-mis-and-disinformation\"><strong>Managing Election Mis- and Disinformation&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After the 2020 elections, major social media platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/08\/25\/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledged to combat disinformation more effectively<\/a>. They began flagging or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/negative-labels\/\">labeling<\/a> posts with misleading content. However, in the face of pressure and backlash over allegations of anti-conservative bias, companies wavered on their content moderation decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Meta, YouTube, and Twitter <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/dec\/07\/2024-elections-social-media-content-safety-policies-moderation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reinstated the former president\u2019s accounts<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>Facebook<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/08\/25\/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weighed banning all political ads<\/a> ahead of 2024, but decided against it after Elon Musk vowed to turn rival Twitter into a free speech sanctuary.<\/li><li><strong>Twitter<\/strong>, under Musk\u2019s leadership, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/08\/25\/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">significantly reduced its election integrity efforts<\/a>, gutting content monitoring teams.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-current-election-integrity-risks\"><strong>Current Election Integrity Risks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As 2024 nears, experts are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/tech-titans-must-step-protect-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sounding the alarm<\/a> about the grave threat that powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies pose to the electoral process. The growing mainstream use of AI tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-can-you-do-with-chatgpt\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>, which can generate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/meta-shuts-down-thousands-of-fake-facebook-accounts-nefarious-2024-election-motives-suspected-5f00a3f0#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20Someone%20in,year%27s%20elections%2C%20Meta%20said%20Thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ultra-realistic fake text, audio, and video known as \u201cdeep fakes,\u201d<\/a> are ripe for abuse. Potential fraudsters can now create false statements and misleading footage, showing candidates behaving improperly or showing fake evidence of vote manipulation. Researchers say that society <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/tech-titans-must-step-protect-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remains largely defenseless<\/a> against these sophisticated fakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts caution that AI-driven mis- and disinformation circulating on social media platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/news\/press-releases\/free-press-report-documents-big-techs-rollback-social-media-safeguards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">represents a severe threat to American democracy<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-election-integrity-in-2024\"><strong>Election Integrity in 2024<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Key initiatives that social media companies are implementing or already have in place to support the integrity of the 2024 elections include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/meta-elections-2024?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=lightspeed&amp;zdee=gAAAAABlTigbcIu3HCvpcFiL1YjnCYbnOcU5Safhu0T60D5fCoYM4xpFKvJdLpVVgiGMN9nt5q6v50D616PWq3FkbdIp51f3HBOv0LVvgy9MyxEjiLKyRvM%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Meta<\/strong><\/a> says it will:<ul><li>Block new political ads a week before the election.<\/li><li>Partner with fact-checking organizations to assess claims.<\/li><li>Remove vote-suppressing and false voting information.<\/li><li>Ask political advertisers to mark AI-generated content used in promoted content relating to social issues or elections. Failure to do so will lead to content removal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>TikTok <\/strong>says it will:<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2023\/how-meta-tiktok-twitter-and-youtube-plan-to-address-2024-election-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Delete misleading content<\/a>.<\/li><li>Guide search results toward accurate information.<\/li><li>Decrease the visibility of false content on the platform.\u00a0<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/07\/social-media-platforms-prep-for-election-day-misinformation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ban political advertising<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>YouTube <\/strong>says it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/11\/10\/1211929764\/election-false-claims-social-media-cisa-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prohibit content<\/a> that could mislead users about voting methods or encourage disruptions to the democratic process. However:\u00a0<ul><li>It has otherwise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2023\/how-meta-tiktok-twitter-and-youtube-plan-to-address-2024-election-misinformation\/\">said little<\/a> about how it will address 2024 election misinformation.<\/li><li>In June, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2023\/how-meta-tiktok-twitter-and-youtube-plan-to-address-2024-election-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revised its disinformation policy<\/a> to allow videos that endorse false election claims on the platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/dec\/07\/2024-elections-social-media-content-safety-policies-moderation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mirroring X\u2019s 2022 position<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>X announced in September that it would <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/4226784-elon-musk-makes-cuts-to-xs-election-integrity-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>cut its election integrity team<\/strong><\/a><strong>, a month after declaring it would expand it.<\/strong>\u00a0<ul><li>In August, the company stated that it <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/twitter-brings-back-political-ads-for-2024-election-1850785042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">will allow political advertising for the 2024 elections<\/a>, reversing a decision in place since 2019.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did social media companies live up to promises to combat election misinformation after 2020? What new technological threats could undermine the 2024 elections? How are companies addressing election integrity issues this time around? Social media platforms face rising pressure to address new AI disinformation threats that could undermine the 2024 elections. Experts warn that companies\u2019 failure to address sophisticated &#8220;deep fakes&#8221; threatens American democracy and could lead to violence. 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