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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Schedule: Elections Date, Month, Seats, States and Candidates

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Lok Sabha Election Schedule 2024 Date: Lok Sabha polls will begin in April and continue for over a month till May, followed by counting of votes on May to choose 543 participants in the Lok Sabha.

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The Undemocratic Shadow Over Thailand’s 2024 Senate Election

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Thailand’s quiet Senate election, which has been criticized by observers, will echo into the country’s future.

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Lesson #5

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This lesson connects to lesson 4 the voting process. This article talks about Taiwan's recent election their voting process, presidential candidates, and parties.

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Massive crowds march on New Zealand parliament protesting Māori bill. Here's what to know | CNN

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Tens of thousands of people have marched on the New Zealand parliament in Wellington to protest against a bill that critics say strikes at the core of the country's founding principles and dilutes the rights of Māori people.

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https://apnews.com/projects/mexico-elections-claudia-sheinbaum-first-female-president/

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Lesson #8

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The actor in the viral music video denouncing the 2024 Olympics looks a lot like French President Emmanuel Macron. The images of rats, trash and the sewage, however, were dreamed up by artificial intelligence.

Portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool, the video mocking the Games spread quickly on social media platforms like YouTube and X, helped on its way by 30,000 social media bots linked to a notorious Russian disinformation group that has set its sights on France before. Within days, the video was available in 13 languages, thanks to quick translation by AI.
WATCH: Why French authorities fear Russia may attempt to disrupt Paris Olympics
"Paris, Paris, 1-2-3, go to Seine and make a pee," taunts an AI-enhanced singer as the faux Macron actor dances in the background, seemingly a reference to water quality concerns in the Seine River where some competitions are taking place.

Moscow is making its presence felt during the Paris Games, with groups linked to Russia's government using online disinformation and state propaganda to spread incendiary claims and attack the host country - showing how global events like the Olympics are now high-profile targets for online disinformation and propaganda.

Over the weekend, disinformation networks linked to the Kremlin seized on a divide over Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has faced unsubstantiated questions about her gender. Baseless claims that she is a man or transgender surfaced after a controversial boxing association with Russian ties said she failed an opaque eligibility test before last year's world boxing championships.

Russian networks amplified the debate, which quickly became a trending topic online. British news outlets, author J.K. Rowling and right-wing politicians like Donald Trump added to the deluge. At its height late last week, X users were posting about the boxer tens of thousands of times per hour, according to an analysis by PeakMetrics, a cyber firm that tracks online narratives.

The boxing group at the root of the claims - the International Boxing Association - has been permanently barred from the Olympics, has a Russian president who is an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and its biggest sponsor is the state energy company Gazprom. Questions also have surfaced about its decision to disqualify Khelif last year after she had beaten a Russian boxer.
READ MORE: What is the IBA? Governing body behind Olympic boxing storm has Russian ties, troubled history
Approving only a small number of Russian athletes to compete as neutrals and banning them from team sports following the invasion of Ukraine all but guaranteed the Kremlin's response, said Gordon Crovitz, co-founder of NewsGuard, a firm that analyzes online misinformation. NewsGuard has tracked dozens of examples of disinformation targeting the Paris Games, including the fake music video.

Russia's disinformation campaign targeting the Olympics stands out for its technical skill, Crovitz said.

"What's different now is that they are perhaps the most advanced users of generative AI models for malign purposes: fake videos, fake music, fake websites," he said.

AI can be used to create lifelike images, audio and video, rapidly translate text and generate culturally specific content that sounds and reads like it was created by a human. The once labor-intensive work of creating fake social media accounts or websites and writing conversational posts can now be done quickly and cheaply.

Another video amplified by accounts based in Russia in recent weeks claimed the CIA and U.S. State Department warned Americans not to use the Paris metro. No such warning was issued.

Russian state media has trumpeted some of the same false and misleading content. Instead of covering the athletic competitions, much of the coverage of the Olympics has focused on crime, immigration, litter and pollution.

One article in the state-run Sputnik news service summed it up: "These Paris 'games' sure are going swimmingly. Here's an idea. Stop awarding the Olympics to the decadent, rotting west."

Russia has used propaganda to disparage past Olympics, as it did when the then-Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. At the time, it distributed printed material to Olympic officials in Africa and Asia suggesting that non-white athletes would be hunted by racists in the U.S., according to an analysis from Microsoft Threat Intelligence, a unit within the technology company that studies malicious online actors.

Russia also has targeted past Olympic Games with cyberattacks.

"If they cannot participate in or win the Games, then they seek to undercut, defame, and degrade the international competition in the minds of participants, spectators, and global audiences," analysts at Microsoft concluded.

A message left with the Russian government was not immediately returned on Monday.

Authorities in France have been on high alert for sabotage, cyberattacks or disinformation targeting the Games. A 40-year-old Russian man was arrested in France last month and charged with working for a foreign power to destabilize the European country ahead of the Games.
READ MORE: French authorities detain Russian man accused of plotting to 'destabilize' Olympics
Other nations, criminal groups, extremist organizations and scam artists also are exploiting the Olympics to spread their own disinformation. Any global event like the Olympics - or a climate disaster or big election - that draws a lot of people online is likely to generate similar amounts of false and misleading claims, said Mark Calandra, executive vice president at CSC Digital Brand Services, a firm that tracks fraudulent activity online.

CSC's researchers noticed a sharp increase in fake website domain names being registered ahead of the Olympics. In many cases, groups set up sites that appear to provide Olympic content, or sell Olympic merchandise.

Instead, they're designed to collect information on the user. Sometimes it's a scam artist looking to steal personal financial data. In others, the sites are used by foreign governments to collect information on Americans - or as a way to spread more disinformation.

"Bad actors look for these global events," Calandra said. "Whether they're positive events like the Olympics or more concerning ones, these people use everyone's heightened awareness and interest to try to exploit them."

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How Russian disinformation campaigns have sought to undermine the Paris Olympics

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Moscow is making its presence felt during the Paris Games, with groups linked to Russia's government using online disinformation and state propaganda to spread incendiary claims and attack the host country.

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Chad has struggled with political parties because since opposition parties often face restrictions, there is little room for opposition and differing opinions on policies. This differs from the United States which has a variety of different political parties and therefore many different views and choices for policies. This would be a great comparison to use when teaching a lesson on the United States election, specifically political parties.