Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: elections

Nearly 100 orgs urge Meta to keep CrowdTangle as over half of world population heads to polls in 2024

Despite over half of the world's population preparing to vote this year, Meta's decision to abandon its election integrity tool CrowdTangle without offering alternative support for elections experts has been criticised by nearly a hundred organizations, journalists, and researchers in a letter to Meta.

Pakistan elections: Amid ballot rigging and army crackdown, Imran Khan-backed independents take lead in tight race

Around 128 million voters were registered to vote in national and state elections in Pakistan amid political and economic turmoil. As the counting of votes...

How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy

Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence Lessig, Harvard University Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave...

“People’s victory over hate,” Trinamul headed for 4-0 win as Bengal bypoll counting progresses

Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee congratulated her party candidates after their victory in the October 30 by-polls.

Mamata Banerjee questions EC decision to conduct Bengal polls in 8 phases

West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has questioned the Election Commission's decision to conduct the West Bengal Assembly Election in eight phases.

Poll dates for Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry announced

The Election Commission has announced the poll schedule for upcoming state assembly elections Friday. The elections are due for West Bengal, Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.