Will 2024 be the year fake news destroys democracy?
With almost a billion people heading to the polls, countries urgently need to band together to combat a flood of disinformation and digital manipulation.
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 seen.
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Mihir Sharma is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was a columnist for the Indian Express and the Business Standard, and he is the author of Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy.
