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As automation comes for the people who keep our information channels clean, what is the human cost of AI safety? An aid foundation peddles AI fakery, Meta backflips on a new deepfakes feature and the UK floats rules for 'trustworthy' sources.

A German court hands down a decision that could reshape AI summaries and chatbots. Pauline Hanson fronts the National Press Club with inflated stats, and social media fuels riots in Northern Ireland.

Farage’s Reform UK gets a helping hand from chatbots in election win. We look at the Russian university secretly training disinformation operatives and how a Queensland "lab leak" was dragged into hantavirus misinformation.

Digital platforms roll out iris scanning as a way to combat AI profiles. Iran brings Lego to a digital gunfight, why the Sora video app is no more, and how fact checkers fared in a year of funding shocks.

Aussies fall for divisive deepfakes as the British far right embraces a fictional rapper. The Iran war has made a mess of social media, and new research suggests X's algorithm could make you more right wing.

What AI swarms and Moltbook mean for the future of disinformation. Plus, Italian police start a conspiracy, US bans visas for fact checkers, and falsehoods target the Bondi royal commissioner.

A seismic year for AI slop, a new defence against deepfakes and how freebirthing and "T maxxing" misinformation is putting people at risk.

Sora 2 and how AI video tools are challenging our ability to believe what we see. Plus, Musk launches “Grokipedia”, and why some people double-down on disproven claims.

The TikTok network covertly touting an app to catch out deception. Wild claims follow Kirk shooting, experts reject Tylenol-autism link and Google tempts students to cheat.

Is crowd wisdom the cure for misinformation? Plus, the US government pollutes the climate debate, news sites fall for a fictitious freelancer, and why Will Smith's crowds aren't as fake as they look.

We unpack the risks of using AI therapists, Grok goes wild, Google threatens to sue over the government's YouTube ban and academics embrace sneaky AI prompts.

Russia's new "fact-checking" strategy, the biggest furphies from the Israel-Iran conflict and how AI manipulates music-streaming platforms.

The chatty bots ruining social media; misinformation about Labor's super proposal; and the paraglider who sailed into a verification snag.

Deepfakes and the 2025 federal election, Labor’s record on election promises and the US after Trump’s first 100 days.