Misinformation

Although too early to tell whether campaign promises will translate into policy, de la Espriella’s platform on climate and human rights marks a departure from the Petro administration. The post After Colombia’s Presidential Election, What Next on Climate and Human Rights? appeared first on Just Security .

The midterms are just months away, yet the Trump administration has spent the last year systematically slashing agency staff and scuttling initiatives responsible for detecting and disrupting foreign ...

On 13 July 2026, the Hungarian Parliament enacted the 17th Amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law. In line with the TISZA Party’s election manifesto, the Amendment ends the current President of the Republic’s, Tamás Sulyok’s, term of office. This is undoubtedly an extraordinary measure. Given the President’s apparent partiality and his failure to respond consistently to earlier illiberal constitutional developments, I consider the exceptional and temporary constitutional change to be justifi

Today, we are publishing our latest paper on gendered disinformation and the EU’s response to this growing democratic challenge. Part of our TFGBV series, the paper explores how existing legislation can be leveraged to tackle gendered disinformation, where the current framework falls short, and what policymakers should do next. Online gendered disinformation is not just […] The post Silenced by Design: Gendered Disinformation and its Threat to Democracy appeared first on Center for Democracy and

In May 2026, Scottish voters once again returned the Scottish National Party (SNP) to power for the fifth successive Scottish Parliamentary election. The pro-independence SNP will bring up twenty years in government at Edinburgh next year. With the SNP promising another independence referendum but not having a legal mechanism to provide one, and polling on that issue still sat at about 50-50, the Scottish political Groundhog Day looks set to continue. Beneath the stasis, however, there is moveme

Social Media + Society, Volume 12, Issue 3, July-September 2026. Does social commentary influence the effects of political deepfakes? To answer this question, we rely on a survey experiment based in Kenya (N= 7,000). The experiment saw respondents view a generated clip of presidential candidates discussing their role ...

arXiv:2607.12336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, while serving as a foundational enabler for modern social media and digital health services, exert a bivalent effect by simultaneously acting as a combatant against and a spread vector for misinformation. A prevalent challenge in mitigating this issue arises in non-English contexts and low socioeconomic classes, where limited data hinders the training of AI models for effective detection. Consequently, c

The October election in Israel will be the voters’ verdict on Benjamin Netanyahu.

Publication date: August–September 2026 Source: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 214 Author(s): Robin Burda, Jan Kleiner, Petra Mlejnková

A new study found social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

Several major BBC journalists see pay drop following election year. The post Top-paid BBC journalists 2025/26: Stephen Nolan and Laura Kuenssberg top list appeared first on Press Gazette .

Deepfakes undermine the credibility that makes digital care — from telehealth visits to patient portals — possible.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, while serving as a foundational enabler for modern social media and digital health services, exert a bivalent effect by simultaneously acting as a combatant against and a spread vector for misinformation. A prevalent challenge in mitigating this issue arises in non-English contexts and low socioeconomic classes, where limited data hinders the training of AI models for effective detection. Consequently, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) commun

arXiv:2607.11676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crafa's algorithmic analysis of the Italian electoral law (D.P.R. 361/1957, as amended by Law 165/2017, the Rosatellum) showed that the statutory text distributing proportional seats among territories (Art. 83(1)(h)) admits at least three algorithmic interpretations, which can elect different people from the same votes. We test this empirically: we implement the full seat-allocation pipeline (Arts. 77, 83, 83-bis, 84, 85) and run the three interpre

The rapid advancement of deepfake generation technologies has fundamentally outpaced the forensic tools designed to detect and authenticate digital media. Traditional watermarking methods, while foundational, were not conceived for the adversarial complexity of multimodal content ecosystems where video, audio, and image signals are increasingly synthesized, blended, and redistributed at scale. This gap has made reliable media provenance one of the most pressing open problems in applied artificia

In a first, the UK and the EU jointly imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.

Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation. The post States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates appeared first on CyberScoop .

Prediction market users have wagered in excess of $197 million on midterm election results, according to NBC News. The outlet analyzed 1,408 open markets on Kalshi and Polymarket for its report, published on Friday. On both platforms, users can bet on a variety of topics, including sports, global events and political elections. As of Sunday...

As AI voice synthesis enables increasingly sophisticated vocal deepfakes and non-consensual voice cloning, the governance, licensing and access of singing datasets has become an urgent concern for data-contributors, who face significant harms from downstream and non-consensual usage of their singing data. Singing datasets are foundational to the development of high fidelity voice AI synthesis, yet current data collection practices pose challenges: data-contributors have an event-centric contribu

On July 9th, President Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and accepted the resignation of its lone remaining Republican, leaving the agency with zero sitting commissioners four months before the midterms. The White House cited last month’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned decades of precedent […] The post After the Firings, Election Officials Need a Plan B for the EAC appeared first on Center for Democracy and Tec

Audio deepfake detection models determine whether speech is genuine or artificially generated, but high overall accuracy can mask substantial performance disparities across demographic groups. In this work, we investigate gender bias in audio deepfake detection using the ASVspoof5 dataset. We use ASVspoof5 under a controlled custom split designed to isolate gender-composition effects. We train attack-specific models on nine training sets with different gender compositions, ranging from female-on

The shake-up raises questions about voting system certification, federal election security coordination, and the commission’s ability to approve key policy decisions.

The post Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms appeared first on ProPublica .

The Inspector-General of Police's Cyber Vetting and Enforcement Team (CVET) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested 11 individuals, including Nigerian nationals, over allegations of using AI-generated deepfake videos to impersonate John Dr ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1579#7502)

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Science works at a much slower pace than social media, opening a large window for early findings to be taken at face value and misinformation to spread.

As AI-generated media flood our information ecosystems, detecting synthetic content has become an urgent regulatory challenge – in fact, not one challenge but many, as synthetic media breeds problems across a range of digital contexts, including deepfakes and disinformation, scamming, and content moderation. The EU's new "Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content" – the first concrete articulation of Article 50(2) AI Act, the EU's approach to AI-content detection – gives sensible

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The post Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law. appeared first on ProPublica .

In the October 2024 flash floods in Spain, social media posts falsely claimed authorities were concealing the number of casualties. The narrative centered on a flooded parking structure in Valencia, where hundreds of bodies were falsely claimed to be trapped. This narrative gained traction even after videos showing the premises had been evacuated. The post Narrative monitoring and argument-checking: Enhancing effectiveness in countering disinformation beyond fact-checking first appeared on HKS M

Not all misinformation consequences are equal. Faced by hundreds of thousands of false claims online and offline every day, fact checkers need a robust way to identify the important ones to check. This scalable model—used by fact checkers in trials in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East since 2024—helps forecast the potential imminent and cumulative harms of different false claims and is an early warning system for society that focuses efforts on factually false claims that cause real-world harm

Fact-checking has become a key response to disinformation during crises and conflicts, but its role is increasingly contested due to concerns about its effectiveness and its co-optation by different political actors. In polarized, high-choice environments, fact-checking is often embedded within partisan and state-aligned infrastructures, shaping validation and rejection of knowledge claims. The post Fact-checking in the multipolar AI order: Between epistemic sovereignty and ambivalence first app

Major platforms constantly claim to fight disinformation and support the fact checking community, but their transparency reports and the empirical evidence from a survey of expert fact checkers across 21 EU countries show a different reality. This study finds that despite commitments made under EU regulations, expert fact checkers remain largely peripheral actors within the existing platform governance framework, with limited insight into how their work influences platform decisions. The post Ac

WASHINGTON - Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls. But the suitor was an AI deepfake, making her yet another victi ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1570#7490)

New EU AI guidance sets practical expectations for labelling, deepfakes and AI-generated content transparency. In Brief Companies are increasingly using AI to create or modify content across marketing, communications and customer-facing channels. As EU transparency obligations under the AI Act move closer to application, this raises practical and operational questions around when AI-generated or AI-manipulated [...] The post New EU guidance on AI transparency: what should companies be doing from

A social media scam is using deepfakes of celebrities to promote products they falsely claim could cure Alzheimer's disease and dementia, the Better Business Bureau warned. Some victims they even found reoccurring charges after buying the h ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1564#7483)

Public First Action routed $2m to support Colorado House candidate Manny Rutinel through Latino Victory Fund — and didn’t publicly announce it ahead of Rutinel’s victory

Dublin takes on the six-month presidency just before the French election grinds EU decision-making to a halt.