• Propaganda in the Pacific

    Anouk Ride     |      March 16, 2025

    Disinformation from hostile foreign states aims to influence opinions foreign policy in the Pacific, and there are signs it is working.

  • Dark ads and democracy

    Open Forum     |      February 27, 2025

    Political inaction and big-tech’s reluctance to protect users from ad-powered misinformation campaigns leave Australians vulnerable to a murky world of digital misinformation going into the Federal election.

  • Don’t be fooled

    Susan Grantham     |      February 4, 2025

    The upcoming federal election will see an influx of deepfakes, doctored images, and tailored narratives that blur the line between fact and fiction.

  • The year of fake news

    Ika Trijsburg     |      January 20, 2025

    Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025.

  • Freedom of speech v freedom from deception

    Tanisha Shah     |      January 18, 2025

    Disinformation threatens Australian democratic processes and the failure of the proposed Disinformation and Misinformation bill highlights the urgent need for balanced regulation ahead of the 2025 elections.

  • Meta-reality

    Rafael Weber Hoss     |      January 17, 2025

    Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook will replace fact checkers with “community notes” has as much to do with Meta’s embrace of AI as the re-election of Donald Trump.

  • Countering disaster disinformation

    John Richardson     |      December 16, 2024

    Disinformation can make it hard for people to distinguish and act on accurate advice. And this can mean life or death when it comes to natural disasters like bushfires.

  • Finding a cure for “digital flu”

    David Grimes     |      November 11, 2024

    Misinformation spreads like a virus online, but this model also offers hope for countermeasures such as ‘prebunking’.

  • Will AI memes sway US voters?

    Timothy Koskie     |      November 5, 2024

    Fake images and social media posts created by bots could erode and undermine trust in democratic systems and communities, as the US is finding out.

  • Combating misinformation

    Lorraine Finlay     |      September 5, 2024

    The federal government’s proposed laws to curb rampant mis- and disinformation on social media need to have clearer definitions – and include the growing menace of mass produced, AI generated lies.

  • No anarchy in the UK

    Sam Stockwell     |      August 17, 2024

    A combination of better AI generated images, complicit social media platforms, hostile state actors and ‘post-truth’ politics threatens democracies around the world, but had little influence on Britain’s recent election.

  • Tackling Pacific misinformation

    Blake Johnson     |      July 18, 2024

    There needs to be stronger communications between governments and media across the Pacific to reduce the spread of misinformation.