South Korea’s election hit by wrong information world News

Seoul: A picture of a Mao Zeding statue bent for the statue? US President Donald Trump, while supporting a long -time shot candidate, claimed that news reports? Not true, just examples of South Korea’s election misunderstanding problems.On Tuesday, an explosion of false claims has occurred with the country to vote for a new leader to change the former President Yun Suk Yeol to vote on a bottled martial law announcement.What are the claims? Many of the claims focus on foreign intervention, supporting China’s exploitation in local apprehensions of focus, or support for conservative camps from the United States.People, one of the most prominent lies, suggested weaknesses in the foreign voter registration system, in which Chinese citizens exploited the system to vote for fraud.“Even foreigners can vote as long as they have an email!” Read a widely shared post, which was debunned by the AFP fact check.Who is targeted? The opposition leader and at the forefront of the election is a popular goal for disintegration. Many claims focus on their perceived loyalty to Beijing-feeding in a long-running story among the guards that control progressive candidates as sympathy, or even by China.For example, photographs given by AFP journalists showed Lee Covet to a Mao statue, and wore a face mask with the Chinese flag on it.This trend reflects the fact that many voters are at least inspired by claims, there are pro-politicians-North Korea, Choi Jin-Bong, said a media communication professor Choi Jin-Dong at Suungkongho University in Seoul. “It is now claimed that progressives are subject to China that resonates-especially the US-China tension deteriorating,” he told the AFP. “Even when wrong, it is politically useful for conservatives in narratives, which is a final-khai attempt to look like an indispensable Lee victory.”What about the conservative candidate? The disintegration that incorporates South Korean conservators focuses on its relations to the United States. The doctured images have shown Trump supporting the announcement of the President’s campaign of former Prime Minister Han Duck-Suk.Han was out of the race since Han, after a bid fail to become a nominated person of Conservative People Power Party (PPP).In another claim, a popular right-wing YouTuber told its 1.5 million customers, saying that Pentagon supported PPP candidate Kim Moon-Su.The US Army Korea told AFP that it was “completely untrue”.But even though they are falsely false, the claims remain “motivators because they benefit political actors”, Lee, a political professor at Incheon National University, told AFP.“They tap in Korea’s polarized landscape and its geopolitical concerns, rally each side with stories that play on fear, identity and external influences.”What about AI?In April, in a lampfack video, Lee showed a hunger strike-which he went to oppose the policies of the then President Yun in 2023-and joking about eating fried chicken.The video, which was widely shared in the right -wing online ecosystem of South Korea, was generated using a real picture of Lee in a hospital bed.An AFP analysis identified several signs of AI manipulation – disappearing background elements, deforming body parts and inconsistent surroundings.The video was fake, but it was fed in an already existing story that Lee’s protest was the protestor.Song-J, a democracy and technology expert at Sangji University, said, “AI-run misunderstanding posed a serious threat to democracy by disrupting access to reliable information of voters.” “When the decisions are made based on the manipulative materials, they are irreversible – and the resulting social and political consequences may deepen.” Cheating number Other claims have also demanded a pre -election polling to be presented incorrectly, which has consistently shown Lee with a major lead over its conservative rivals.A viral graphic, shared day before the initial polling began, PPP candidate Kim led Lee in the recent elections. In fact, the number came from January and February, and the original source has clearly listed the survey dates.They were deliberately cropped to mislead the audience, thinking that the results were on. The official May Pol showed Lee with a commanding lead of five points or more.