{"id":5506,"date":"2026-01-12T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:06:44","slug":"fact-check-the-disinformation-we-debunked-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/12\/fact-check-the-disinformation-we-debunked-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: The disinformation we debunked in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2025, DW&#8217;s fact-checking team observed that disinformation became increasingly sophisticated, heavily utilizing AI-generated deepfakes and manipulated media to distort reality. Major global events, particularly the escalation of regional conflicts and high-stakes international elections, served as primary catalysts for the viral spread of false narratives. The report highlights a significant trend where &#8220;cheapfakes&#8221;\u2014low-tech edits of real footage\u2014remained just as effective at misleading the public as complex artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 30, 2025. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/fact-check-the-disinformation-we-debunked-in-2025\/a-75283770\">dw.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, DW&#8217;s fact-checking team observed that disinformation became increasingly sophisticated, heavily utilizing AI-generated deepfakes and manipulated media to distort reality. Major global events, particularly the escalation of regional conflicts and high-stakes international elections, served as primary catalysts for the viral spread of false narratives. The report highlights a significant trend where &#8220;cheapfakes&#8221;\u2014low-tech edits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}