More people than ever before were called to the ballot boxes in 2024, as democracies worldwide raised their guard against information manipulation.
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00:00How did misinformation impact the election super year?
00:08More people were called to the ballot boxes in 2024 than in any other year in election history.
00:15Here are five elections where we saw the disruptive impact of AI-generated misinformation and foreign interference.
00:23In February, Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan proclaimed victory in the country's general election
00:30using an AI-generated speech that cloned his own voice.
00:35Independent candidates backed by Khan won most seats in the election, but they were ultimately kept out of power.
00:42In June, there were fears of foreign interference in the European elections.
00:47A pro-Kremlin hacker network attacked the websites of three Dutch political parties on the first day of voting.
00:54Moldovans voted in presidential elections and the referendum on EU membership in October.
01:00Russia spent as much as 100 million euros in total to undermine the electoral process, according to Moldovan authorities,
01:07including through direct bank transfers to buy voters' anti-EU votes.
01:14During the US presidential ballot in November, a series of bomb threats were reported in five battleground states,
01:20forcing polling stations to be evacuated.
01:23The FBI said the bomb alerts could be traced back to Russian domains.
01:27And the second round of Romania's presidential election was dramatically cancelled in November
01:33after the country's constitutional court cited problems with the legality of the electoral process.
01:39It came after a little-known ultra-nationalist candidate, Kalin Djordjescu,
01:44swept to victory in the first round after running a successful TikTok campaign.
01:49A state actor, presumably Russia, was behind that campaign, according to declassified Romanian intelligence.