Thanks to colour–coded ‘traffic light’ food labelling, we can quickly and easily make healthy and safe choices. If only it was as easy to validate the video content we see to establish whether what we’re watching is trustworthy, real and not putting our digital health at risk.
We all have front row seats for the impending perfect storm: AI manipulated video becoming hard to detect; an increasingly polarised political landscape; and the growth of extreme content as big tech drives up user engagement while reducing its fact checking teams.