Media must fight fake narratives even when winning seems impossible
An assassination attempt against a former or future US president will open the floodgates of disinformation hell. Even if victory seems unlikely, journalism must make its stand.
An assassination attempt against a former or future US president will open the floodgates of disinformation hell. Even if victory seems unlikely, journalism must make its stand.
38 years ago, Akira was a cyberpunk futuristic piece that lived far away in a reality we didn’t have any connection with. Today, Tetsuo and Kaneda can be sitting in the seat next to you.
We all hear that governments, tech giants, and advertisers must press for changes in the digital space, but audiences often forget that they are the foundational stone of it all.
The logic around data production, storage and consumption points to decentralisation as a trend. Will the AI layer push the current system into overdrive, or will new business and architecture models (or models) emerge?
Truth lies in context, and context has been lost to fragmentation, superficiality, platforms and other things. Can artificial intelligence be the game changer for good?
Artificial intelligence is set to create a significant impact on the news environment. Has the media industry learned from previous major changes to handle it effectively?
The news environment isn't broken. Instead, it functions flawlessly for the tech corporations that designed it. It's time to replace it with a system rooted in trust and decentralisation.
Journalism’s imperfections are like a blessing if compared to the dystopic scenarios AI can create if operating by incentives unrelated to the greater good.
The debate is becoming increasingly difficult to follow, as certainties are suffocating everything that opposes them.
Is the tech market an Adam Smith paradise with perfect competition or a distorted ecosystem where incumbents are bound to always win?
Truth is the fundamental atom society relies on. Journalism must shift focus from mere facts to uniting diverse societal spectrums.
There is a disinformation market out there raging. Why aren’t we trying to make the lives of their operators harder?
Help desperately needed from tech companies won’t come to save journalism because the priorities are not - and won’t be - aligned.
Almost nine in ten citizens in Europe agree that disinformation is a major threat. Then why none seems to be ready to spend money with the problem?
Tackling disinformation may be opening the door for the UK government to create a surveillance apparatus. Is there a satisfactory balance between freedom of speech and curtailing disinformation?
We are on an environment where everyone talks, but none listens - a curious democracy paradox.
The rampant polarization in the US blinds the sophisticated audiences who see themselves as liberals - but they are no smaller part of the problem.
Disinformation does not exist without context, but context can only be deployed with the right social, economical and historical circumstances.
Virtuous coalitions to counter disinformation will not work while inequality, the real cause of the issue, is not challenged.
Artificial intelligence can help to solve some of the most terrible world problems, but without regulation, they can pave the way for catastrophes.