Harassment, hate speech, doxxing, intimate image abuse, and cyberbullying.
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Unsurprisingly, 2026 starts where 2025 left off: with disinformation escalating, accountability under pressure, and the rules of a free, trustworthy and pluralistic information space openly contested. This first EU DisinfoLab newsletter of the year brings together the stories setting the tone: from US travel bans targeting European counter-disinfo practitioners, to Venezuela and the rapid spread of disinformation following the US operation, and to platforms ...
Security experts have warned that Western governments are poorly equipped to counter a new frontier of online disinformation.
A new artificial intelligence (AI) agent could equip Europe to better defend itself against the barrage of Russian disinformation attacks. Cipher is Canadian-developed AI software that has proven to accurately and quickly detect Russian disinformation targeting Canadian networks, on both the ...
In the days surrounding Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's February election win, several dozen X accounts linked to a Chinese misinformation campaign attacked her deeply conservative views and hawkish approach to China, said a U.S. research institute focused on national security and ...
Generative AI has dramatically compressed the cost and scale of narrative manipulation.
Drawing from the Digital Policy Alert’s daily monitoring of G20 countries, the roundup summarizes the highlights in four core areas of digital policy.
16-17 February 2026 Amsterdam Law School (University of Amsterdam)
EU risk assessments and platform litigation in the US represent distinct approaches to governing and mitigating risks posed by social media platforms.
Addictive design remains substantively under-addressed in VLOPs’ systemic risk assessments under the Digital Services Act, writes Cecilia Isola.
X this week launched a landmark legal challenge against the €120 million fine it received in December under the Digital Services Act (DSA), an EU censorship law.
How did the two directors of the German digital rights nonprofit HateAid become targets of the Trump administration? Here’s how they’re continuing their mission.
The founders of HateAid, a German human-rights group that helps victims of online attacks, were accused by the Trump administration of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex.”
When it comes to hate speech online, India lacks a regulatory framework that matches the scale of what's documented, writes David David Sathuluri.
The online portal is set be hosted at Freedom.gov.
UpScrolled, a social network that surged in the wake of the U.S. TikTok deal, has seen an uptick in harmful content, including usernames and hashtags that contain racial slurs.
The Government is to introduce ... images (NCII), including deepfakes, within 48 hours of being notified: a move welcomed by domestic abuse charity Refuge as a “long-overdue step forward”. The announcement follows mounting concern about the scale of technology-facilitated abuse. Refuge, which operates a specialist Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team, reported a 62% increase in referrals in 2025 compared with ...
Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enough