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Fake News Danger Becomes Top Davos Worry in Year of Elections
- Forum’s survey shows misinformation as biggest short-term risk
- Hardship, false facts and elections threaten ‘potent mix’
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False or wrong information poses the biggest danger to the world in the next two years amid a confluence of elections and economic drudgery, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum.
Hours after a fake post on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account fueled a brief surge in Bitcoin, the Geneva-based organization that will next week host the global elite in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos highlighted how worries about the potential manipulation of voters are mounting.