Misinformation and disinformation
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1. Risk management - World Economic Forum (WEF) - Global Risks Report - global risk.
For the purposes of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report, a misinformation and disinformation global risk is defined as persistent false information (deliberate or otherwise) widely spread through media networks, shifting public opinion in a significant way towards distrust in facts and authority.
- Explosion in falsified information and synthetic content
- "Misinformation and disinformation is a new leader of the top 10 [global risk] rankings this year.
- No longer requiring a niche skill set, easy-to-use interfaces to large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models have already enabled an explosion in falsified information and so-called ‘synthetic’ content, from sophisticated voice cloning to counterfeit websites.
- To combat growing risks, governments are beginning to roll out new and evolving regulations to target both hosts and creators of online disinformation and illegal content."
- Global Risks Report 2024, Page 18, January 2024, World Economic Forum.
2. Risk management - risk identification.
Similar risks in other contexts.
See also
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Business risk
- Climate risk
- Commercial risk
- Country risk
- Environmental risk
- Event risk
- Financial risk
- Fraud
- Geopolitical risk
- Global risk
- Global Risks Report
- Gross domestic product (GDP)
- Guide to risk management
- Misrepresentation
- Natural resources
- Operational risk
- Political risk
- Polycrisis
- Risk
- Risk identification
- Risk management
- Sovereign risk
- Systemic risk
- Transition risk
- Weather risk
- World Economic Forum (WEF)
