Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming votes.
before Slovakia’s elections, an audio recording was posted to Facebook. On it were two voices: allegedly, Michal Šimečka, who leads the liberal Progressive Slovakia party, and Monika Tódová from the daily newspaper. They appeared to be discussing how to rig the election, partly by buying votes from the country’s marginalized Roma minority.the audio showed signs of being manipulated using AI.
During the elections, Hincová Frankovská’s team worked long hours, dividing their time between fact-checking claims made during TV debates and monitoring social media platforms. Demagog is a fact-checking partner for Meta, which means it works with the social media company to write fact-check labels for suspected disinformation spreading on platforms like Facebook.
After a few hours they were ready to confirm that they believed the recording had been altered. Their label, which is still available to see on Slovak-language Facebook when visitors come across the post, says: “Independent fact-checkers say that the photo or image has been edited in a way that could mislead people.” Facebook users can then choose if they want to see the video anyway.
“Slovakia was a test case to see what works and where some improvements are needed,” says Richard Kuchta, analyst at Reset, a research group that focuses on technology’s impact on democracy. “In my view, [the new law] put pressure on platforms to increase the capacities in content moderation or fact-checking. We know that Meta hired more fact-checkers for the Slovak election, but we will see if that was enough.
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