Will my sons vote this year? I hope so – or Rishi will conscript them
Emma Beddington
Putin’s daughters and anti-western hawks rule at this year’s ‘Russian Davos’
April 2024
Political ads could be heading to UK TV screens due to legal loophole
‘Inceptionism’ and Balenciaga popes: a brief history of deepfakes
March 2024
Elon Musk v OpenAI: tech giants are inciting existential fears to evade scrutiny
Kenan Malik
Moguls extol the fruits of artificial intelligence, but seek to hide its science from public view
February 2024
Hidden gems from the world of research
Want to come up with a winning election ad campaign? Go with the evidence, not your gut
Torsten Bell
New research reveals different political ads work in different times and different places
January 2024
Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
AI-driven misinformation ‘biggest short-term threat to global economy’
December 2023
How 2023 became the year Congress forgot to ban TikTok
Momentum seemed to be with US lawmakers as they planned to stop 150m Americans from using TikTok. What happened?
November 2023
Meta deflects child harm inquiry by pointing to Apple and Google app stores
The Guardian documentary
Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world
October 2023
How conspiracy theories are damaging democracy
Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs
August 2023
Notes and queries
Readers reply: which person has had the greatest impact on the course of the 21st century so far?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
May 2023
Elections in UK and US at risk from AI-driven disinformation, say experts
False news stories, images, video and audio could be tailored to audiences and created at scale by next spring
ChatGPT CEO shares concern over AI being used to interfere with elections – video
Top technology CEOs testified before congress on the future of artificial intelligence, calling on lawmakers to introduce new regulations to limit its misuse
Brazil receives pushback from tech companies on ‘fake news’ bill
Brazilian government has accused Alphabet of interference after it placed advertising on its search homepage and YouTube
February 2023
Disinfo black ops
The Guardian view on disinformation online: a 21st-century growth industry
Editorial: An undercover investigation reveals the threat to public discourse posed by private mercenaries dealing in lies and distortion
December 2022
Factchecking organisation wins prestigious British Academy award
Full Fact receives president’s medal 2022 for exposing and countering misinformation in news and political campaigns
November 2022
Elon Musk never cared if Twitter was a business failure – he wants a political win
Richard Seymour
The social platform’s new owner wants to rebalance information ecologies in favour of the right, says activist and author Richard Seymour
