Election

Ballot boxes. Natural disasters and extreme events are increasingly disrupting elections around the world. Credit: The Commonwealth Secretariat / Flickr

Climate crisis also threatens democracy: Elections in more than 50 countries have been disrupted by natural disasters

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A report by International IDEA found that at least 94 elections and referendums were disrupted between 2006 and 2025 due to floods, fires, heat waves and storms.
Bots are involved in elections. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Swarms of AI personas: The silent threat to democracy that already speaks to us online

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A paper in Science warns that coordinated networks of synthetic identities can integrate into communities, build trust, and sway political discourse—without looking like bots.

The new threat – blackmailers in the service of Russia to sway the election

From tearful posts with babies and wounded soldiers to attempts to undermine elections – this is how Russian and Chinese influence operators use fake AI-generated images to identify the innocent and target them with dangerous messages
political polarization. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Six ways artificial intelligence can make political campaigns trickier than ever

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Climate March 2017, the end point in front of the US Embassy. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Will the politicians take action and try to save the planet from climate change?

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Zapper - a simple and cheap disposable camera in which the bulb is replaced by a loop antenna measuring 5 x 8 centimeters

Prof. Avishai Wall from the School of Engineering at Tel Aviv University: "The proposed electronic election system in Israel - a danger to democracy"

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