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Manufactured Realities: The Digital Politics of Truth in India’s 2024 Election
Author(s): Simpal Tripathi, Akhilendra Kr Singh
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1Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh, India.
DOIs:10.2018/SS/202512004 | Paper ID: SS202512004Abstract
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Abstract : The 2024 Indian General Election unfolded not merely as a contest for political power, but as a struggle for control over the public sphere itself. In a digital landscape governed by social algorithms and shaped by echo chambers, the conditions for rational public debate, what Habermas envisioned as communicative reason; were deeply challenged. Social media platforms, designed to maximise engagement rather than understanding, reconstituted the public sphere into a fragmented network of curated realities. Within these spaces, misinformation, deepfakes, and AI-driven propaganda circulated with viral precision, collapsing the boundaries between truth and narrative, authenticity and manipulation.
This qualitative, document-based study examines how the architecture of social algorithms and the psychology of digital participation transformed India’s 2024 election discourse. Drawing from government reports, verified fact-checks, and academic analyses, it explores how algorithmic amplification and partisan echo chambers reshaped democratic deliberation. The paper argues that the election exposed a deeper crisis in communicative rationality: where citizens no longer deliberate with one another but within algorithmically tailored silos. In such an environment, truth becomes contingent, and democracy risks devolving into digital populism. Yet, the study also finds that democratic integrity can be renewed through civic literacy, transparent regulation, and the revival of a participatory public sphere grounded in ethical communication. Reimagining democracy in the algorithmic age, it contends, means defending not just the ballot box but the very ecology of shared understanding upon which free societies depend.Keywords: misinformation, deepfakes, echo chambers, social algorithms, Habermas, public sphere, India 2024 election, political propaganda.
Simpal Tripathi, Akhilendra Kr Singh (2025); Manufactured Realities: The Digital Politics of Truth in India’s 2024 Election, Shikshan Sanshodhan : Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, ISSN(o): 2581-6241, Volume – 8, Issue – 12, Pp.17-23 Available on – https://shikshansanshodhan.researchculturesociety.org/