AI Makes Political Views More Acceptable: Right or Wrong

Politics, especially at election time, is an opportunity for politicians to have missteps that are deliberate, forced or accidental. In the past, these missteps were not able to be corrected in real time, but now, with the advent of social media and AI, missteps can be exposed “immediately” or criticism of the missteps will draw comments from social media networks. The fake news syndrome has always been with us in the media but now AI can do the fact checking at speed and accurately. Does this mean politicians will make fewer missteps or is the political mileage too much to not generate fake news. Can AI or the threat of AI algorithms that can fact check deter politicians from making untrue statements? The challenge is how misinformation from governments, leaders and messages in political campaigns are not mischaracterised as freedom of speech when they are really misinformation or fake news.