Fact-checking is a small but crucial part of an overarching culture of cybersecurity. The security team is not the only group that must live and breathe security; employees and business leaders must also do the same.
Major elections are being held around the world, and many with razor thin margins promise to be contentious, emotive and hard-fought. Proponents of particular candidates and parties are using active disinformation campaigns to spread lies, innuendos and misinformation, to promote their candidate and disincentivize their opponent’s supporters from voting.
It's now possible for artificial intelligence (AI) programming systems to create false information and present it as fact – and even trick cybersecurity experts into thinking the information is true.
Entire populations are being manipulated through increasingly prevalent and hyper-compelling information typically spread via social media, designed to invoke emotion and exploit known biases and provoke a tsunami of misinformation.
