AI Remains a Wild Card in the War Against Disinformation

### Executive summary: The report outlines the growing threat of AI-generated disinformation, explaining how generative AI tools and social media accelerate the creation and spread of convincing fake content, particularly around elections. It reviews current regulatory and platform responses, technical detection challenges, and potential mitigations—such as watermarking, improved moderation, and boosting public digital literacy—while noting the evolving nature of the threat and the need for diversified, adaptive defenses.