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Misinformation
Synthetic media, election deepfakes, watermarking and provenance — the misinformation front of AI ethics, tracked daily.
Sparse Evidence Can Suffice: Agentic Evidence Seeking for Multimodal Video Misinformation Detection
Multimodal video misinformation detection is commonly formulated as a holistic video-understanding task, where the entire video and its associated content are processed and judged in a single pass. However, real-world misinformation often exhibits a sparse and compositional evidence structure: a reliable decision may depend on only a few coupled clues, while most video content contributes limited additional information. Exhaustive multimodal reasoning may therefore introduce substantial redundan
Europa obliga a identificar la IA: quiénes y cómo deberán advertir que publican contenido artificial
La Comisión Europea publica las directrices sobre transparencia para sistemas de inteligencia artificial como los populares chatbots y para detectar ‘deepfakes’ que entrarán en vigor el 2 de agosto
How to Close the Federal Election Commission’s Dark Money Loophole
Financial Audit Assistance using Misinformation Detection and Explanation
Financial statements (FS) such as Balance Sheet (BS), Income Statement (IS) and Cash-flow Statement (CS) summarize the annual financial performance of a company. FS are widely used for evaluating corporate governance, credit appraisal, risk analysis, validate taxation, make investment decisions etc. Financial auditing is a complex and knowledge-intensive discipline whose one important aim is ensuring integrity, accuracy, fairness and absence of material misstatement in the published FS. Given th
Time-Frequency Consistency Learning for Robust Speech Deepfake Detection
Recently, speech deepfake detection (SDD) has achieved significant progress. However, its robustness evaluation remains largely confined to controlled additive noise scenarios, lacking systematic investigation of the complex distortions introduced by acoustic front-end (AFE) processing pipelines in real-world deployments. In this work, we simulate a unified AFE pipeline comprising acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, automatic gain control, and voice activity detection (VAD), and condu
☕️ Deepfakes sexuels : Apple et Google de nouveau rappelés à l’ordre
Une fois de plus, Apple et Google vont devoir supprimer de leurs boutiques des applications de génération de deepfakes. Le procureur municipal de San Francisco, David Chiu, a mis en demeure les deux contrôleurs d’accès de retirer 13 applications capables de produire des images à caractère sexuel truquées et sans consentement (huit sur l’App Store, […]
SEBI warns of AI impersonation scams with fraudsters posing as company CXOs
SEBI has warned regulated entities and listed companies about the "Boss Scam", in which fraudsters impersonate senior executives using deepfakes, voice cloning and malware to authorise fund transfers. The post SEBI warns of AI impersonation scams with fraudsters posing as company CXOs appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
“What do you expect? You’re part of the internet”: Analyzing Western Celebrities’ Experiences as Usees of Deepfake Technology
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2026 Source: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Author(s): John Twomey, Sarah Foley, Sarah Robinson, Michael Quayle, Matthew Peter Aylett, Conor Linehan, Gillian Murphy
‘Synthetic insider’ attacks raise stakes for corporate cyber defence
Use of AI deepfake employees to infiltrate companies highlights wider risk of internal security breaches
AI supercharges the cyber hacker’s toolkit
Criminal groups are building deepfake personas on an industrial scale to trick people into divulging information
Trump monetizing his social media account is ‘odious’ and ‘brazen corruption’ — or an attempt to revive a 70% stock price crash since election
It's probably both.
Trump amplifies China interference claim: 'Unprecedented election security nightmare'
President Trump on Friday doubled down on his accusations of widespread voter fraud and interference by China in the 2020 presidential election in a series of social media posts. Trump delivered a highly anticipated primetime address to the nation on Thursday, in which he unveiled his administration compiled new proof that the 2020 election, which...
L’IA, alliée ou ennemie de l’information ?
« Festival international de journalisme » (1/7). L’intelligence artificielle générative fait aujourd’hui pleinement partie de notre quotidien. Mais dans les médias et pour le public, elle crée la confusion entre réalité et fake news.
Veteran GOP Election Lawyer Still Has One Problem With Trump’s 2020 Claims: The Evidence
Ben Ginsberg says years later, the proof Trump keeps promising still hasn't materialized. The post Veteran GOP Election Lawyer Still Has One Problem With Trump’s 2020 Claims: The Evidence appeared first on Above the Law .
State officials, election experts pan Trump speech: ‘This is what desperation looks like’
The president’s speech re-hashed debunked conspiracies around U.S. elections. Critics say the administration’s 18-month investigation into voter fraud has been a total failure. The post State officials, election experts pan Trump speech: ‘This is what desperation looks like’ appeared first on CyberScoop .
Morning Docket: 07.17.26
* Last night, Trump delivered a speech ostensibly about election security, but it was mostly a commercial for the 25th Amendment. [ Election Law Blog ] * Madison Square Garden sues WIRED over article claiming the stadium "used surveillance to track celebrities’ race, gender identity, and sexual orientation." Can you believe a despicable owner who already admits to routinely using face recognition to ban lawyers from events could do such a thing? [ USA Today ] * Trump selling financial firms earl
China dismisses ‘groundless’ Trump election interference claim
China denied President Trump’s accusation that it interfered with the 2020 presidential election, calling the claim “entirely fabricated” and “groundless” while insisting it never had any interest in meddling with U.S. elections. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian responded to Trump’s Thursday primetime address, when the president accused...
You’ve come a long way, Bibi: Israel’s crucial election
You’ve come a long way, Bibi: Israel’s crucial election The Economist
Karnataka to set up direct social media response framework as other states step up online content enforcement
Karnataka's new social media coordination framework promises faster action on misinformation, fake news and hate speech. Read the details. The post Karnataka to set up direct social media response framework as other states step up online content enforcement appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
☕️ xAI poursuit un utilisateur de Grok pour création de deepfakes sexualisés
xAI, maison mère du réseau social X et du moteur d’IA générative Grok, poursuit en justice un homme de Caroline du Sud au motif qu’il aurait utilisé Grok pour créer du contenu représentant des agressions sexuelles sur mineurs (Child sexual abuse material, CSAM). L’homme, Terry Harwood, a été arrêté plus tôt dans l’année pour des […]
An Initial Readout of Trump’s Election-Interference Speech
An intelligence official on what the declassified material shows—and does not show—about foreign threats and the president’s allegation of an intelligence community cover-up. The post An Initial Readout of Trump’s Election-Interference Speech appeared first on Just Security .
The “Plot” Against President Trump?
No, not the one to supposedly steal an election — the one by ABC and NBC to keep his "big news" primetime address off their airwaves
Top takeaways from Xi Jinping’s opening address at the World AI Conference in Shanghai
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a landmark speech at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, delivering his first-ever keynote address at the country’s premier artificial intelligence event. Xi’s speech came just moments after his US counterpart, Donald Trump, delivered an unprecedented attack against Beijing during a prime-time national broadcast, accusing China of orchestrating the “largest compromise of election data in history”. The dueling addresses are set to further fuel...
Trump stretches declassified China intelligence into broader 2020 election claims
The records provide new details about Chinese intelligence collection on voters and internal analytic debates, but do not undercut longstanding findings on the 2020 election.
As Le Pen looms, Macron and Merz bid to show Franco-German engine still has clout
The leaders promised a broad push on defense, industry and technology as the 2027 French presidential election raises questions about whether their agreements will endure.
Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law
The post Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law appeared first on ProPublica .
NBC, ABC and CNN Won’t Carry Trump Primetime Election Speech
The broadcasters will stream the address and break in if needed, with other networks still scrambling to determine their plans for the speech. CBS, however, will air a special report at 9 p.m.
Greeks could land in jail for removing AI deepfake labels
Individuals who remove watermarks from AI-generated deepfakes could face jail time under a Greek draft law transposing the EU’s AI Act into national legislation. The ruling New Democracy party has ...
Understanding Social-Cognitive-Norm Mechanisms Driving Disinformation Verification among Indonesian Young Adults on Social Media
Publication date: Available online 14 July 2026 Source: Computers in Human Behavior Author(s): Yonathan Dri Handarkho, Th. Devi Indriasari, Yohanes Sigit Purnomo Wuryo Putro, Citra Yayu' Palangan
‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health
She has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years and fears the debate obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregivers The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice Odgers believes. Men are the biggest perpetrators of sextortion and most likely to spread misinformation, she says. Odgers is not recommending this as a po
Beyond AI-Generated Labels: Watermarking, Co-Creation, and Conflation of AI-Generation with Disinformation
arXiv:2607.13082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking is often presented as a straightforward solution for distinguishing AI-generated from human-generated content, enabling platforms and regulators to trace synthetic content and detect AI-generated outputs at scale. This paper examines whether such mechanisms meaningfully address the epistemic and ethical challenges that arise in domains where the central concern is not the automation of content production, but the accuracy, intent, an
Commission Without Commissioners: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission
xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the […]
Trump’s intelligence pick pressed on 2020 election, defends handling of New York Times subpoenas
Jay Clayton faced Democratic criticism after repeatedly declining to say Joe Biden won in 2020 and standing by subpoenas issued by his Manhattan prosecutor’s office to four New York Times journalists.
Feds tie counterterrorism grants to election security measures
The new guidance from FEMA would require states to take various steps on elections before receiving funds. Government groups criticized the move as an overreach.
Dems press DNI nominee Jay Clayton on election security questions, but leave dismayed
Clayton maintained he was not an “election denier” but wouldn’t directly answer a number of questions about the 2020 race, his predecessor’s appearance at a January election office raid and more. The post Dems press DNI nominee Jay Clayton on election security questions, but leave dismayed appeared first on CyberScoop .
Trump’s DNI pick grilled about election security, voter fraud
Senators pressed director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton about his stance on the 2020 election and previous statements about voter fraud. Other issues took a back seat.
Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity
ABC and NBC did not specify why they declined to air the speech, but networks are often loath to grant time to presidents for overtly political purposes.
PNG’s answer to the deepfake problem
TheNew York Times (Opens in new window) recently reported the world’s leading deepfake expert Hany Farid no longer trusted his own eyes. Farid, a University of California professor in Berkeley, felt ...
UC Berkeley professor: 'Things are getting weird', even Mitch McConnell photos aren't being trusted
After analysing a photo of Mitch McConnell that social media users claimed was AI-generated, AI and deepfake detection expert, professor and author Dr Hany Farid told the ACFE Global Fraud Conference that the bigger challenge for fraud prevention experts may be proving what's real rather than spotting what's fake.