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Deepfakes Synthetic Media

Flooding the Zone: How AI-Generated Content Is Overwhelming the Information Ecosystem

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated content has transformed the digital landscape, creating an unprecedented surge in the volume and diversity of info...

16 May 2026 · 9 min read

Deepfakes Synthetic Media

The Geopolitics of Deepfakes: State Actors, Information Warfare, and Manufactured Crises

Deepfakes refer to synthetic media, including audio, video, and text, generated through artificial intelligence to mimic real individuals or events with high levels of realism. These techn...

15 May 2026 · 10 min read

Disinformation Media Literacy

The Information Environment and Society: A Comprehensive Overview

The information environment encompasses the complex interplay of systems, processes, and contexts through which information is generated, stored, disseminated, and utilized. It is a dynamic framework ...

31 Mar 2026 · 13 min read

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Disinformation & Media Literacy

How false information spreads and why it works on us - and the critical thinking, prebunking and resilience strategies that help individuals, organisations and democracies push back.

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Platform Governance

How platforms shape public discourse through algorithms and moderation, and how liability rules and regulation like the Digital Services Act are trying to hold them to account.

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AI & Policy

AI regulation and digital policy across the UK, EU and beyond - what the emerging frameworks demand of organisations, and the rights they exist to protect.

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Humanitarian Tech

Technology in humanitarian contexts: protecting vulnerable people, supporting crisis response, and confronting the harms AI can inflict on refugees and marginalised communities.

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Electoral Integrity

Defending democratic processes from influence operations, voter suppression narratives and synthetic media in an AI-shaped information environment.

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AI Governance & Oversight

Practical AI governance: oversight frameworks, audit trails, drift monitoring and risk management that keep deployed AI systems accountable from design through to live operation.

23 articles

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Deepfakes & Synthetic Media

Deepfakes and generative AI content - what synthetic media means for consent, trust, law and culture, and the struggle to preserve authenticity online.

33 articles

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AI, Peace & Conflict

Intelligent systems in war and peacebuilding: early warning, machine-mediated reconciliation, autonomous weapons, and AI's role in societies rebuilding after conflict.

27 articles