Just because 2024’s “biggest election year ever” is over, global voting continues in 2025. In Australia, the federal election is coming up soon. In Ireland, they’re setting up for a Presidential election later in the year. And in the UK, it’s the local elections taking place in May.

The use of AI to spread disinformation is still a huge risk. High-profile politicians and foreign actors alike continue to try and polarise society by generating outrage with synthetic content.

Are you deepfake-ready?

Test your AI detection skills with these games. I scored no more than 60% on any of them…

https://www.realornotquiz.com/

https://info.frontify.com/real-or-not-real-quiz

https://britannicaeducation.com/blog/quiz-real-or-ai/

Most of these tools are almost a year old, so imagine how much better the AI tech is now.

Remember: if it sparks a strong emotion in you, it’s trying to manipulate you. Step back and ask yourself who might benefit from you getting the wrong end of the stick, or a skewed representation of a situation. We’re all being exposed to a highly bespoke information ecosystem, designed to polarise us.

Check out this brief YouTube clip that gives us some simple tools to protect us from online disinformation.

The enemy of disinformation is not fact, it’s doubt. Question everything.