Online Roundtable on Election Monitoring Efforts to Preserve Information Integrity
Berlin, Brussels, 4 September 2025: Since 2023, landmark legislation like the EU’s AI act and Digital Services Act came into effect, while novel generative AI technologies came into widespread mainstream use. Numerous elections in Europe marked by disinformation and foreign interference (e.g., Romania 2024). Globally, the 2024 Trump re-election and Musk’s takeover of X accelerated rollbacks in moderation and fact-checking.
DRI organised [...]
accountability, Austrian elections, Austrian general elections, election observation, election security, social media monitoring, social media monitoring of electoral campaigns, Telegram monitoring, transparency
Vote Advice Application for the Austrian general elections online
Vienna, 16 September 2024: Since Monday, 16 September 2024, the vote advice application wahlrechner.at for the 2024 Austrian National Council election is online. The wahlrechner.at was first tested during the European elections as a pilot project, where the app recorded 550,000 users.
The project, initiated by several democracy-focused NGOs, is supported both technically and content-wise by the association KohoVolit.eu, which [...]
accountability, Austrian elections, citizen led election observation, election security, inclusion in elections, transparency, transparency of political campaign, vote advice appliation, wahlrechner.at