Maria C. Esperidiao

Mar 26, 2025 | ijnet.org | Julie Posetti |Maria C. Esperidiao |Thayane Guimarães

Disinformation-laced attacks on journalists and public interest media are now a key plank of the 21st-century authoritarian playbook. Political actors instigate narrative capture by seeding widespread distrust in facts. Disinformation and distrust in facts are then “viralized” by Big Tech companies’ platforms and technologies, infecting the information ecosystem, with serious consequences for every democracy.