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As Ghana approaches a critical presidential election on 7 December, sophisticated digital manipulation tactics have entered the scene. As covered in our elections series with Rest of World, the rating system NewsGuard has identified a network of 171 bot accounts leveraging ChatGPT to flood X with politically charged content, marking what researchers call "the first secretly partisan network using AI to influence elections in Ghana." These accounts operate with clockwork precision, generating AI-written posts that amplify right-wing political messaging while attacking opposition candidates. This comes at a particularly sensitive time for Ghana, where election-related violence claimed eight lives in 2020. Read the full story from Caroline Haskins: https://lnkd.in/e46k-MvV

Phony X accounts are meddling in Ghana’s election

Phony X accounts are meddling in Ghana’s election

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