In recent years, fact-checking organizations have found themselves at the intersection of disinformation campaigns, political pressure, and public mistrust. Framed alternately as "saviors of truth" an...

Comment is free, facts are sacred wasted. The world is now drowning in opinions. Facts, meanwhile, are not having a good time. They are expensive and time-consuming to establish - and there is growin...

Explicit deepfake imagery is one of the most real and tangible threats facing society today, much more so than disinformation related to deepfakes, yet our industry’s discussions tend to focus on th...

Full Fact is one of the world's leading independent fact-checking organisations and also an industry leader in the use of AI technology for fact-checkers. It is partnering with fact-checking organisat...

Synthetic media, AI and deepfakes continue to advance in their realism, ease of creation and accessibility. While AI was not the pivotal factor in global elections in 2024, significant audio, image an...

La disinformazione nasce con l’informazione stessa. Ma con l’aumentare dei mezzi e i canali di comunicazione, il fenomeno ha assunto proporzioni e caratteri nuovi, sfruttando a suo beneficio il po...

2025 is set to see the transatlantic gulf on how to regulate online speech become even wider. Regulators in the EU are demanding greater regulation of platforms than ever, but the US has made clear th...

The EU requires online platforms to counter "harmful misinformation" but no system is agreed to decide what is and is not "harmful". In 2024, three fact-checking organisations ran a trial of a new mod...

2025 is the year of widespread generative AI video. Six months after the wider launch of OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo 2, and as the ability to create, edit and use generative AI video grows in r...

The weaponisation of nostalgia is a pernicious trend infecting democratic deliberation and affecting the outcome of elections around the world. ICFJ's Disarming Disinformation project has tracked thi...