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AS INDIA VOTES, MISINFORMATION SURGES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS
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AS INDIA VOTES, MISINFORMATION SURGES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS
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FILE- Women queue up to cast their vote during the second phase of polling in
the six-week long national election in Barmer district, western Rajasthan state,
India, April 26, 2024. Misinformation about India’s election is surging online
as the world’s most populous country votes. The country has a huge online
ecosystem, with the largest number of WhatsApp and YouTube users in the world.
Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote in the multiphase election that
ends next month.(AP Photo/Deepak Sharma, File)
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FILE- An Indian laborer at a building construction site watches election trends
on a mobile phone in Gauhati, India, May 23, 2019. Misinformation about India’s
election is surging online as the world’s most populous country votes. The
country has a huge online ecosystem, with the largest number of WhatsApp and
YouTube users in the world. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
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FILE- Mobile phone covers showing various political parties symbol are displayed
at a wholesale shop in Mumbai, India, April 9, 2019. Misinformation about
India’s election is surging online as the world’s most populous country votes.
The country has a huge online ecosystem, with the largest number of WhatsApp and
YouTube users in the world.(AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)
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the six-week long national election in Barmer district, western Rajasthan state,
India, April 26, 2024. Misinformation about India’s election is surging online
as the world’s most populous country votes. The country has a huge online
ecosystem, with the largest number of WhatsApp and YouTube users in the world.
Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote in the multiphase election that
ends next month.(AP Photo/Deepak Sharma, File)
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FILE- Women queue up to cast their vote during the second phase of polling in
the six-week long national election in Barmer district, western Rajasthan state,
India, April 26, 2024. Misinformation about India’s election is surging online
as the world’s most populous country votes. The country has a huge online
ecosystem, with the largest number of WhatsApp and YouTube users in the world.
Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote in the multiphase election that
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FILE- Mobile phone covers showing various political parties symbol are displayed
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood stars seldom weigh in on politics, so videos showing
two celebrities criticizing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — and endorsing
his main opposition, the Congress party — were bound to go viral.
But the clips of A-list actors Aamir Khan and Ranveer Singh were fake,
AI-generated videos that were yet another example of the false or misleading
claims swirling online with the goal of influencing India’s election. Both
actors filed complaints with police but such actions do little to stanch the
flow of such misinformation.
Experts warn AI deepfakes will aim to mislead voters and undermine elections
around the world
Here’s how governments and organizations are responding to the threat.
* In the U.S., the FCC outlawed robocalls containing AI-generated voices, which
have been used to discourage voters.
* Major tech companies have signed an accord to prevent AI from being used to
disrupt democratic elections worldwide.
* And a Davos report found AI-powered misinformation is the world’s biggest
short-term threat.
AI-powered misinformation and disinformation are emerging risks as people in a
slew of countries head to the polls. Read more on the 25 elections in 2024 that
could change the world, and take a look at more of the AP’s global elections
coverage.
Claims circulating online in India recently have misstated details about casting
a ballot, claimed without evidence that the election will be rigged, and called
for violence against India’s Muslims.
Researchers who track misinformation and hate speech in India say tech
companies’ poor enforcement of their own policies has created perfect conditions
for harmful content that could distort public opinion, spur violence and leave
millions of voters wondering what to believe.
“A non-discerning user or regular user has no idea whether it’s someone, an
individual sharing his or her thoughts on the other end, or is it a bot?” Rekha
Singh, a 49-year-old voter, told The Associated Press. Singh said she worries
that social media algorithms distort voters’ view of reality. “So you are biased
without even realizing it,” she said.
An Indian laborer at a building construction site watches election trends on a
mobile phone in Gauhati, India, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
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In a year crowded with big elections, the sprawling vote in India stands out.
The world’s most populous country boasts dozens of languages, the greatest
number of WhatsApp users as well as the largest number of YouTube subscribers.
Nearly 1 billion voters are eligible to cast a ballot in the election, which
runs into June.
Tech companies like Google and Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and
Instagram, say they are working to combat deceptive or hateful content while
helping voters find reliable sources. But researchers who have long tracked
disinformation in India say their promises ring hollow after years of failed
enforcement and “cookie-cutter” approaches that fail to account for India’s
linguistic, religious, geographic and cultural diversity.
Given India’s size and its importance for social media companies, you might
expect more of a focus, say disinformation researchers who focus on India.
“The platforms are earning money off of this. They are benefiting from it, and
the whole country is paying the price,” said Ritumbra Manuvie a law professor at
the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Manuvie is a leader of The
London Story, an Indian diaspora group which last month organized a protest
outside Meta’s London offices.
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takes so long
Research by the group and another organization, India Civil Watch International,
found that Meta allowed political advertisements and posts that contained
anti-Muslim hate speech, Hindu nationalist narratives, misogynistic posts about
female candidates as well as ads encouraging violence against political
opponents.
The ads were seen more than 65 million times over 90 days earlier this year.
Together they cost more than $1 million.
Meta defends its work on global elections and disputed the findings of the
research on India, noting that it has expanded its work with independent
fact-checking organizations ahead of the election, and has employees around the
world ready to act in case its platforms are misused to spread misinformation.
Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said of India’s election: “It’s
a huge, huge test for us.”
“We have months and months and months of preparation in India,” he told The
Associated Press during a recent interview. “We have teams working around the
clock. We have fact checkers in multiple languages operating in India. We have a
24-hour escalation system.”
Mobile phone covers showing various political parties symbol are displayed at a
wholesale shop in Mumbai, India, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)
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YouTube is another problematic site for disinformation in India, experts say. To
test how well that video-sharing platform was doing in enforcing its own rules,
researchers at the nonprofits Global Witness and Access Now created 48 fake ads
in English, Hindi and Telugu with false voting information or calls for
violence. One claimed India raised its voting age to 21, though it remains 18,
while another said women could vote by text message, though they cannot. A third
called for the use of force at polling places.
When Global Witness submitted the ads to YouTube for approval, the response was
disappointing, said Henry Peck, an investigator at Global Witness.
“YouTube didn’t act on any of them,” Peck said, and instead approved the ads for
publication.
Google, YouTube’s owner, criticized the research and noted that it has multiple
procedures in place to catch ads that violate its rules. Global Witness removed
the ads before they could be spotted and blocked, the company said.
“Our policies explicitly prohibit ads making demonstrably false claims that
could undermine participation or trust in an election, which we enforce in
several Indian languages,” Google said in a statement. The company also noted
its partnerships with fact-checking groups.
AI is this year’s newest threat, as advances in programs make it easier than
ever to create lifelike images, video or audio. AI deepfakes are popping up in
elections across the world, from Moldova to Bangladesh.
Senthil Nayagam, founder of an AI startup called Muonium AI, believes there is
growing demand for deepfakes, especially of politicians. In the run up to the
election, he had several inquiries on making political videos using AI. “There’s
a market for this, no doubt,” he said.
Some of the fakes Nayagam produces feature dead politicians and are not meant to
be taken seriously, but other deepfakes circulating online could potentially
fool voters. It’s a danger Modi himself has highlighted.
“We need to educate people about artificial intelligence and deepfakes, how it
works, what it can do,” Modi said.
India’s Information and Technology Ministry has directed social media companies
to remove disinformation, especially deepfakes. But experts say a lack of clear
regulation or law focused on AI and deepfakes makes it harder to squash, leaving
it to voters to determine what is true and what is fiction.
For first-time voter Ankita Jasra, 18, these uncertainties can make it hard to
know what to believe.
“If I don’t know what is being said is true, I don’t think I can trust in the
people that are governing my country,” she said.
Over 50 countries go to the polls in 2024
* The year will test even the most robust democracies. Read more on what’s to
come here.
* Take a look at the 25 places where a change in leadership could resonate
around the world.
* Keep track of the latest AP elections coverage from around the world here.
___
AP journalists Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, and Rishi Lekhi in New
Delhi contributed to this report.
KRUTIKA PATHI
Pathi covers India and the wider South Asia region. She is based in New Delhi.
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