From deepfake videos to Covid conspiracies: How we are tackling online disinformation

In an era of AI, disinformation and fake news, experts speak about these challenges, and why ‘the genie is out of the bottle’ when it comes to inflammatory content being spread on social media

Social media algorithms don’t discriminate whether what is gaining ‘clicks’ is true or false

Conor Feehan

There’s nothing new about fake news and disinformation, but the rise of artificial intelligence and unregulated social media have taken it to a whole new level.

What happens now that recordings and videos, as well as photos, can be artificially created to produce a deliberately misleading impression?