You are to act as a consultant for a public policy group that studies the impact of computational propaganda, threat to democracies and Generative AI$.$ Your assistant has collected articles covering computational propaganda across four nations, Brazil, Canada, Germany and the USA.

You are to investigate using these documents and others that you deem necessary to answer the following questions:

I$)$What is computational propaganda? Why is this topic important now?

II$)$ What are the similarities and differences across computational propaganda used in Canda, Brazil, Germany and the US$?$ What characteristics differentiate the use of computational propaganda in each country and were they effective and how so$?$

III$)$ What are the mitigation techniques for combating computational propaganda?

IV$)$ What were the roles of bots in computational propaganda? Were they effective? How so$?$

V$)$Given that Generative AI $($such as ChatGPT, or Bing or Gemini$)$ can generate information that are difficult to distinguish from that of a human, what dangers can we anticipate in the context of computational propaganda especially with automated bots using Gen AI$?$ Any potential remedies to minimize the misuse of Gen AI for computational propaganda affecting democracies?