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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Yashraj Sharma

Deepfake democracy: Behind the AI trickery shaping India’s 2024 election

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from a global investors' summit in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday, February 19, 2024. Modi's BJP has been both a pioneer in the use of AI in campaigning and a victim of deepfakes [Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo]

New Delhi, India — As voters queued up early morning on November 30 last year to vote in legislative elections to choose the next government of the southern Indian state of Telangana, a seven-second clip started going viral on social media.

Posted on X by the Congress party, which is in opposition nationally, and was in the state at the time, it showed KT Rama Rao, a leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samiti that was ruling the state, calling on people to vote in favour of the Congress.

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