{"id":188092,"date":"2024-12-17T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/2024\/12\/17\/november-2024-disinformation-suggests-election-fraud-and-unnatural-disasters\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:18:11","slug":"november-2024-disinformation-suggests-election-fraud-and-unnatural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/2024\/12\/17\/november-2024-disinformation-suggests-election-fraud-and-unnatural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2024 Disinformation Suggests Election Fraud and Unnatural Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND SPAIN FLOODING ARE MOST TARGETED TOPICS BY FALSE STORIES<\/p>\n\n<p>The four Italian editorial projects that published fact-checking content, and contributed to&#13;\nthis report*, published a total of 199 fact-checking articles as of November 2024. Of these, 7 (3.5%) dealt with cases of disinformation regarding the war in Ukraine, 10 (5%) with the war in the Middle East, 9 (4.5%) with the pandemic, 24 (12%) with climate change, 11 (7.5%) with the European Union, 10 (5%) with immigration, and 13 (6.5%) with gender or LGBTQ+ issues. Articles on the American election campaign accounted for 27 out of 199, or 13.5% of the total.<\/p>\n\n<p>The US presidential elections were the most widely spread topic of disinformation in November, although the percentage was lower than in September (15%). False stories about&#13;\nthe climate also increased: their value tripled in two months, from 3.9% in September to 12% in November.&#13;\nDisinformation about LGBTQ+ issues doubled compared to October, but remained at a relatively low level. Unfounded news about the EU and Ukraine did show growth, but to a lesser extent.<\/p>\n\n<p>After the peak in October, the value of disinformation on the Middle East conflict has instead fallen by around 10%, in line with what was detected at European level by Edmo. The other topics that Idmo constantly monitors have remained almost stable or have only suffered slight declines.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-alle-09.54.30-1024x656.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187699\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-GENERATED DISINFORMATION is on the decline<\/p>\n\n<p>The percentage of fake stories using AI-generated content dropped in November. 13 of the 199 fact-checked articles involved AI-generated or AI-modified content, equivalent to 6.5% of the total misinformation detected. Despite the decrease, this is still higher than the European average detected by EDMO.<\/p>\n\n<p>Among the fake stories that used AI in November, the most notable were a supposed photo of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu hospitalized and a generated image of alleged Kamala Harris supporters, portrayed as being maniacs. Other AI-generated fakes covered smaller issues, such as the real face of the Statue of Liberty and a plane carrying another.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-alle-09.55.52-1024x734.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187701\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Orizzontale1.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND SPAIN FLOODING ARE MOST TARGETED TOPICS BY FALSE STORIES The four Italian editorial projects that published fact-checking content, and contributed to&#13; this report*, published a total of 199 fact-checking articles as of November 2024. Of these, 7 (3.5%) dealt with cases of disinformation regarding the war in Ukraine, 10 (5%) with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":189323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4996,4934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monthly-reports","category-reports"],"acf":{"share_this_post_to_edmo_website":false,"type_of_post":false,"options_for_news_post":{"":""},"options_for_event_post":{"event_start_date":null,"event_end_date":null,"event_location":"","event_programme":""},"options_for_report_post":{"post_author":"","report_type":false,"report_pdf_link":""},"options_for_investigation_post":{"post_author":""},"affiliation":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189326,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188092\/revisions\/189326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}