Election Tech 2024: How Deepfakes and Disinformation Disrupted 70+ Elections This Year
Our Blackbird.AI analysis shows how AI-enabled narrative attacks—deepfakes, bot networks, social flooding—disrupted the democratic processes in 70+ nations this year.
More than 70 nations—about half the world’s population—conducted an election in 2024.
Blackbird.AI’s RAV3N team examined how AI-enabled disinformation tactics—deepfakes, bot networks, and social flooding, for example—reshape elections worldwide by exploiting societal vulnerabilities, amplifying false narratives, and eroding public trust in democratic institutions. Analyzing millions of posts, our teams identified coordinated attacks designed to sway voter perception and destabilize elections. Bad actors leverage emerging technologies to overwhelm fact-checkers and target audiences with emotionally charged, misleading content.
I collaborated with our RAV3N intelligence team and AI engineers throughout the year to identify and understand narrative attack and disinformation tactics. What's fascinating is that bad actors worldwide use the same techniques. TLDR: artificial intelligence and disinformation are reshaping democracy in real-time.