{"id":4105,"date":"2024-02-10T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/ai-and-misinformation-whats-ahead-for-social-media-as-the-us-election-looms\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:05:36","slug":"ai-and-misinformation-whats-ahead-for-social-media-as-the-us-election-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/ai-and-misinformation-whats-ahead-for-social-media-as-the-us-election-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and misinformation: what\u2019s ahead for social media as the US election looms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation is outpacing our ability to handle misinformation, experts say. That makes falsehoods easy to weaponize<\/p>\n<p>As the United States\u2019 fractured political system prepares for a tense election, social media companies may not be prepared for an onslaught of viral rumors and lies that could disrupt the voting process \u2013 an ongoing feature of elections in the misinformation age.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of major issues face these tech companies at a time when trust in elections, and in the information people find on social media, is low. The potential for politicians and their supporters to weaponize social media to spread misinformation, meanwhile, is high.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/10\/social-media-ai-misinformation-election-2024\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation is outpacing our ability to handle misinformation, experts say. That makes falsehoods easy to weaponize As the United States\u2019 fractured political system prepares for a tense election, social media companies may not be prepared for an onslaught of viral rumors and lies that could disrupt the voting process \u2013 an ongoing feature of elections &#8230; <a title=\"AI and misinformation: what\u2019s ahead for social media as the US election looms?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/ai-and-misinformation-whats-ahead-for-social-media-as-the-us-election-looms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AI and misinformation: what\u2019s ahead for social media as the US election looms?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}