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16.5 million UK adults encountered deepfakes online in the past month Demos calls for action to safeguard democracy Political deepfakes and AI-generated misinformation pose a serious risk to democracy, the cross party think tank Demos today warns, as new evidence...
Text-based AI services such as chatbots and AI-powered search results routinely provided inaccurate information about elections ahead of this month’s polls, according to new evidence from the cross-party think tank Demos. Errors included getting the date of election day wrong,...
On 12 February 2026, the Labour government published its Representation of the People Bill (Elections and Democracy Bill), intended to “protect our democracy against foreign interference and give young people the right to vote”. Responding to the bill, Azzurra Moores,...
Breaking: Queues are forming outside cash machines across the UK this morning as banking apps slowed and failed amid mounting reports that major financial institutions are on the brink of collapse. Several banks have been forced to restrict transfers, and...
With a sigh of relief at Demos Digital, party conference season is finally over and with it, its own information ecosystem. To burst what can feel like a filter bubble, here are my top takeaways (not the canapes, sorry). This...
The Epistemic Security Network is a new network hosted by Demos. It provides a home for collective efforts to protect democracy by cleaning up and fortifying our information supply chains. As part of the network we share a bi-weekly newsletter, Epistemic Security...
Read the first report from this programme of work, Epistemic Security 2029: Fortifying the UK’s information supply chain to tackle the democratic emergency. 2024 was dubbed the “year of democracy”, a super election year in which, by some counts, half the...
Concerns about the impact of generative AI on elections are increasing as the tools grow in sophistication and become more accessible. This raises multiple concerns about the potential impact on electoral misinformation and disinformation (which we discuss in our new...
In Summer 2023, JRF’s innovative new Insight Infrastructure team commissioned CASM, the digital research unit at the cross-party think tank Demos, to complete an exploratory project examining how people with lived experiences of financial hardship are talking about their experiences...
