Deepfakes, disinformation and foreign interference, to name a few, have troubled voters all around the world in a bumper year for polling. What are the lessons for Singapore?
A multitude of online threats await political parties, authorities and the voting population as Singapore’s next general election looms. SINGAPORE: He might be educated, tech-savvy and plugged into current affairs but every now and then, 30-year-old Isaac Neo still has his doubts over whether something he's spotted online is real or fake.
Such falsehoods are among the multitude of online threats that voters, political parties and governments around the world must contend with in a Indonesia's president-elect Prabowo Subianto and vice-president-elect Gibran Rakabuming Raka giving a speech after being officially announced as winners of the election by the General Election Commission . , with a dead politician revived to praise a candidate on video and an audio hoax of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi resigning among others.
“At RSIS, we've studied some of the best practices in securing elections, such as the Canadian 2019 federal election,” said Mr Ang. It is also concerned about the rise of generative AI capable of producing convincing deepfake videos, which has"elevated the potential for harm to a new level.” The ruling People’s Action Party and the Progress Singapore Party , which has two Non-Constituency MPs, declined to comment.
Mr Ang from RSIS said political parties need to respond to threats"strategically – by knowing which ones to respond to and which to ignore – quickly, transparently and authentically”. In the lead-up to elections, popular short-form video platform TikTok works with fact-checking bodies, electoral commissions and civil society to create information resources for users.
In February, WhatsApp's parent company Meta said that in the"coming months", it will label AI-generated images on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. Dr Soon noted that tech companies’ content moderation policies are global in nature, and that localising them would require collaboration with stakeholders like the government.
“We have also seen many instances in recent years where social media and communications technologies were used by entities to mount Hostile Information Campaigns against other countries,” said the department. Assoc Prof Pang from NUS said that while the government and schools alike have been pushing to improve digital literacy, political topics and elections"are much harder to tackle".
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