Fake fact-checking and disinformation
This week: fake fact-checking videos take disinformation to a different level.
NFTs and Gamestop on The Future, This Week
This week: we discuss how digital ownership through NFTs creates value and new kinds of assets, and what the GameStop saga reveals about new forms of spontaneous digital organising.
Is FaceApp hoarding our data?
Is FaceApp amassing a database of user-submitted images for political purposes, under the guise of a light-hearted game?
The Future, This Week 19 Jul 19: #DeepFakes, #DigitalHumans, #WillSmith
This week: deep fakes, digital humans and a young Will Smith in our Vivid Ideas Special.
The words that ate 2018
Each year the Macquarie Dictionary Committee choose a new word that represents the year gone by. Drawn from a short list, the words selected are both innovative and highly topical: so it’s no coincidence we have delved into some of the issues underlying these evolving words.