More than half of humanity will be called to the polls for presidential, parliamentary, regional or municipal elections in 2024

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Dear Friends,

More than half of humanity will be called to the polls for presidential, parliamentary, regional or municipal elections in 2024 – 4.1 billion voters. Eight of the world’s ten most populous countries will have elections this year. They include the United States, which will organise one of the most important votes for the future of democracy.

Elections are moments of great vulnerability for democracies. As we have seen already, a single piece of fake news can completely undermine the integrity of the vote. In Slovakia a few weeks ago, a fake recording of a politician, produced with artificial intelligence, caused confusion. The danger of this happening is much greater now due to the spread of easy-to-use software capable of producing content in which it is almost impossible to distinguish authentic from artificial.

The democratic mechanisms for combatting this new type of fake news are not ready, but the elections will go ahead. This is why access to reliable, unimpeded and independent news reporting is all the more decisive during election periods. Unfortunately, this access is declining in some countries where journalism has been undermined.

Seeing this, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has decided to make election coverage and the integrity of elections one of our priority areas of work in 2024, and we have already launched some very diverse initiatives. We are organising training for journalists, we have designed a manual on security during elections to be available in several languages, we are distributing protective equipment, and we are making it possible for journalists to have continued online access if the Internet is cut for political reasons.

We are also using the elections for advocacy targeting candidates, urging them to incorporate our specific proposals for promoting the right to reliable reporting into their programmes.

With your help, we will step up our work so that every citizen called to the polls can exercise their right to vote in complete freedom and full awareness of what they need to know.

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS (RSF)
Christophe Deloire, secretary-general
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