To mark the 10th edition of the Digital news report, the authors have compiled a special lift-out, featuring ten of the most interesting trends to emerge in news consumption and attitudes, including the growth of distrust in news, the divergence of news interest between young men and women, and changing use of social media.

This report examines several scenarios in which democratic governments might consider using deepfakes to advance their foreign policy objectives.

The purpose of conducting this research was to investigate the influence and impacts of technology on the already-existing issue of 'fake news', and subsequently put forward recommendations to counteract it.

What can be done to ensure that high-quality, independent journalism—instead of misinformation and clickbait—can still attract public attention when news dissemination is increasingly mediated by digital platforms? Several groups are now trying to solve this challenge by developing and promoting digital markers, akin to nutrition labels, that signify reliability and credibility of news online. This...

This investigation set out to explore whether digital platforms remove electoral process misinformation when they are made aware of it via user-reporting.