Opinion: Paige Alexander and Kristin Lord: 2024 is the year of elections. Let’s act now to protect them.

As we look ahead this year, voters in more than 50 countries, including the United States, will go to the polls.

The elections will take place during a period of global democratic backsliding and in rapidly changing social media environments characterized by new threats from generative artificial intelligence and tech platforms’ reductions in trust and safety protections. The challenges to election integrity and public confidence are daunting and require all levels of society — individuals, communities, and institutions — to act.