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Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps

At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections.

Fast forward to the end of the year, Meta claims those fears did not play out, at least on its platforms, as it shared that the technology had limited impact across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The company says its findings are based on content around major elections in the U.S., Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, the EU Parliament, France, the U.K., South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. The company also found that coordinated networks of accounts that were looking to spread propaganda or disinformation “made only incremental productivity and content-generation gains using generative AI.”

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