Much of the debate on disinformation still assumes that manipulation spreads through public platforms. When people increasingly turn to conversational systems to interpret events, political influence can move from public feeds into private dialogue
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Yes. At the bottom right corner there's Gemini ai generated logo.
Last week I presented the latest developments of my research on AI companions and disinformation.
Synthetic friends raise uncomfortable questions about how influence works when it moves from public feeds into private conversations.
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He Is frequently a guest in Italian talk shows. That also explain why Italy is one of the weakest country towards Russian propaganda.
If Iran regime falls, Russia loses one of its key allies in the aggression against Ukraine.
My current Twitter feed is: scambot, far right, far right, scambot, scambot, far right, ...
A new hybrid front Is opening on European western front. We should update the list of FIMI actors and start protecting citizens from disinformation narratives coming from where we did not expect.
Same people who did not impeach him after Jan 6. Nothing can top that.
I think it's sadly time to expand the list of FIMI actors beyond Russia and China.
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Hold on, this thing has a name... it was called co... col... colo... ah, I can't remember.
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Laughs in GDPR 🇪🇺
Bitchat is a reminder of something we keep forgetting: the internet is not a switch, it’s a network.
It was built to route around damage, even extreme disruption.
You can shut down access points, but the network logic adapts.
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I keep saying this: tech companies cannot be trusted with public health. Without oversight, they will always push boundaries in their own interest.
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Very interesting result. To me this strengthens the case that affective polarization is often a correlate, not a causal lever, of false news sharing. Reducing hostility doesn’t restore shared epistemic constraints. Attention, incentives, and the social function of sharing seem more decisive.
Strong analogy, but the damage goes deeper.
In markets, broken contracts create instability. In politics, broken contracts erase obligation.
Trump isn’t just extracting value from politics, he’s showing that political commitments no longer bind.
What if the core democratic challenge today isn’t fixing information, but preserving the ability to decide together under conditions of permanent disagreement?
The last Future Frontiers issue of 2025 is a reflection on orientation, not prediction.
We talk a lot about misinformation and polarization. But 2025 revealed many of the frameworks we still rely on no longer help societies translate disagreement into shared decisions.
📬 This is the last issue of Future Frontiers for 2025. See you next year!
The so-called “global censorship-industrial complex” is a tiny world of academics and NGOs, journalists, and disinformation researchers who for the last decade have been trying to understand the power and reach of the tech platforms and how they are invisibly manipulating our information spaces.
We are in a post-disinformation phase where the core problem is no longer false content, but the collapse of shared standards for knowledge and collective action. This matters for security too. I connect these dots in this week’s Future Frontiers.
The US willingness to act alone is not new. What’s new is the reason behind it. Democratic values once justified unilateral action; today they are treated as constraints.
📬 This week in Future Frontiers, I try to explain why that matters, especially for Europe.
When Merz says the “American peace” as Europeans knew it is over, he’s pointing to a long shift, not a sudden break.
📬 This week in Future Frontiers, I look at how US security thinking evolved from post-9/11 universalism to today’s far narrower logic.
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I wrote about the strange sensation of knowing more while understanding less, and how this shapes the future of journalism. The piece is less a verdict and more an open question. How do we build shared reality in a fragmented information climate.
Media debates often ask how to fix newsrooms or regulate platforms, but what if the real crisis is that stories no longer stay.
This week Future Frontiers reflects on journalism as a space where orientation might still be built.
Sometimes it feels like we are living inside an information climate rather than an information system.
📬 This week Future Frontiers explores what happens when journalism can no longer guarantee a shared foundation for public understanding.
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That's what a russian asset would do.
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The real challenge today is not the volume of information but the pathway it follows through our minds.
This week in Future frontiers I look at how attention and identity now guide the first steps of understanding.
Hey, but what about Hunter and his laptop?
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