Disinformation 2025: now with extra AI flavouring This year has been a masterclass in how

Disinformation 2025: now with extra AI flavouring

This year has been a masterclass in how to bend reality, package it up, and sell it back to the public as “truth.”

🥇 Russia’s Pravda Network is spamming the internet so aggressively (350,000+ articles a month) that even AI chatbots are starting to think Kremlin PR is history class. Poison the dataset, poison the future. Genius, if it weren’t terrifying.

🥈 China’s Spamouflage isn’t just a catchy name—it’s an AI-fuelled factory of deepfakes, fake NGOs, and memes. The new model of diplomacy apparently comes with a laugh track.

🥉 Russia & Iran decided U.S. politics needed more chaos, so their bot armies dressed up as MAGA supporters and shouted “false flag” until it trended. Divide and conquer, 280 characters at a time.

🌍 In London and Paris, climate disinformation campaigns weaponised cultural fear to fight emission zones and bike lanes. Who knew cycle paths could destabilise democracy?

☢️ And in the India–Pakistan conflict, TV channels and Twitter accounts rushed to “break news” about nuclear strikes and downed jets that… never happened. Why wait for facts when you can just broadcast fan fiction?

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The upgrade in 2025?
1. AI is both the scalpel and the patient—generating lies and being trained on them.
2. Precision targeting—not “everyone,” just the exact group you’re angry at.
3. Perfect timing—strike during crises, when the truth is weakest.

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If the 2010s were about fake news, the 2020s are about fake reality.

And unless we build real safeguards into AI, media, and policy, we’ll be stuck arguing with chatbots that swear Pravda is a primary source.