The year 2024 will be the biggest ever year voting. National elections will take place around 64 countries, as well as in the European Union. An estimated two billion people - almost half the global population - could vote some time this year. The results these polls will bring big changes the future of many people. Voters the world's four largest electoral blocs - the EU, India, Indonesia and the USA - will be casting their votes. One the first contests will be in Taiwan January the 13th. For much of the year, eyes will be focused events in the US. In November, there will be a repeat of the 2020 election if Donald Trump runs President again.
Journalists are worried how free and fair many elections will be. The website Bloomberg.com has already posed a question that is the lips of many people. It asked: "Will 2024 be the year fake news destroys democracy?" Bloomberg said bad actors will use artificial intelligence to change the way people vote phoney news articles. It said there will be "a storm disinformation and digital manipulation unlike anything the world has ever seen". It added that disinformation has already begun to spread, and that this "gets harder to spot as fake every passing month". Fact checkers will have to work extra hard to reduce the number AI-based posts social media.
