BridgeView Marketing announced that its proprietary PR Rosetta Stone™ platform has earned both a Hermes Creative Awards Gold Award and recognition in the 32nd Annual Communicator Awards for innovation in AI-enabled PR measurement, earned media attribution, AI search visibility and executive-grade PR analytics.

The recognition underscores the growing importance of measurable PR ROI, AI discoverability and data-driven communications intelligence as organizations increasingly seek visibility into how earned media influences website traffic, AI-generated answers, search authority and sales-relevant engagement.

PR Rosetta Stone™ was recognized in the Hermes Creative Awards category “AI, Emerging Technology & Innovation | Emerging Technology Innovation.” The Hermes Creative Awards is administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), one of the communications industry’s leading international competitions honoring excellence in marketing, branding, digital communications and emerging media.

BridgeView Marketing also earned recognition in the 32nd Annual Communicator Awards, one of the world’s largest and most competitive communications awards programs. The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA), an invitation-only body of more than 1,100 industry leaders, oversees judging for the program.

This year’s Communicator Awards jury included professionals from JPMorgan Chase & Co., FedEx, Netflix, National Geographic Society, Accenture Song, Critical Mass, NAACP and other leading organizations.

BridgeView Marketing joins an award-winning field that includes globally recognized organizations such as The Walt Disney Company, PepsiCo, Syracuse University and Marriott International.

A New Standard for AI-Powered PR Measurement and Earned Media Attribution

As AI reshapes online discovery, traditional PR reporting methods built around impressions, screenshots and advertising value equivalency (AVE) are increasingly failing to provide executives with meaningful business intelligence.

PR Rosetta Stone™ was developed to solve a growing industry challenge: how to connect earned media directly to measurable business outcomes.

The AI-enabled PR reporting dashboard combines:

• Earned media attribution
• Website traffic attribution
• Google Analytics 4 (GA4) PR tracking
• Backlink authority analysis
• AI visibility signals
• ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity discoverability insights
• Referral traffic intelligence
• Sales-relevant audience analytics
• Revenue intelligence reporting
• Executive-grade PR KPI dashboards

The resulting framework helps organizations better understand how authoritative media coverage contributes to:

• Website traffic growth
• Search engine visibility
• AI-generated answers
• Backlink authority
• Brand discoverability
• Referral traffic spikes
• Lead generation opportunities
• Revenue-aligned communications performance

“The communications industry is rapidly moving into an era where AI search visibility and earned media attribution matter as much as traditional media impressions,” said Michael Emerton, founder and CEO of BridgeView Marketing. “PR Rosetta Stone was developed to provide decision-grade PR analytics that help executives understand how media coverage impacts website traffic, AI discoverability, backlink authority, referral traffic and measurable PR ROI.”

Unlike legacy PR reporting models, PR Rosetta Stone correlates media coverage timing with GA4 website traffic analytics, referral traffic spikes and engagement activity to uncover measurable relationships between earned media performance and business visibility.

The platform was designed specifically for the AI search era, where editorial authority, backlinks and trusted third-party media mentions increasingly influence how organizations appear in:

• ChatGPT answers
• Gemini-generated responses
• Perplexity search results
• AI-powered search engines
• Traditional Google search rankings

AI Search Visibility Is Reshaping PR Measurement

Search behavior is rapidly evolving beyond traditional search engines.

Organizations are increasingly being discovered through AI-generated answers and conversational search platforms that prioritize authority, trusted editorial coverage, contextual relevance and backlink quality.

This shift is creating growing demand for PR analytics platforms capable of measuring:

• AI visibility
• AI search discoverability
• LLM visibility signals
• Earned media authority
• Website traffic attribution
• Revenue intelligence
• PR-driven lead generation

PR Rosetta Stone was developed to help bridge that visibility gap.

“The future of PR measurement is no longer about estimating awareness through vanity metrics,” Emerton added. “Organizations now need executive-grade PR analytics that show how earned media influences AI visibility, website traffic generation, lead intelligence and revenue-aligned business outcomes.”

About PR Rosetta Stone™

PR Rosetta Stone™ is an AI-enabled PR reporting and intelligence platform developed by BridgeView Marketing to help organizations measure earned media attribution, PR ROI, AI visibility, website traffic engagement and revenue-aligned communications performance.

The platform integrates earned media analytics, backlink authority measurement, GA4 PR tracking, AI visibility signals and referral traffic intelligence into a unified executive dashboard designed for the AI search era.

For more information, visit:
https://www.bridgeviewmarketing.com/marketing-consulting-services/pr-rosetta-stone/

About BridgeView Marketing

BridgeView Marketing is an innovative digital agency specializing in technology PR, AI-driven communications intelligence, SEO strategy, earned media visibility and measurable PR analytics. For more than two decades, the agency has helped technology companies strengthen search authority, increase media visibility, improve AI discoverability and align communications programs with measurable business outcomes.

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Globalization has created different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, and special economic zones. Entrepreneurs see an opportunity with these new spaces to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight by creating what is termed a “network state.”

The network state is a concept cultivated by influential and wealthy people (Joseph Lonsdale, Peter Thiel, Garry Tan, David Sacks, among others) who believe technology will collapse the economies of nation-states and democracies by sucking all the jobs and revenue out of them.

As the nation states die, they theorize, there will be chaos and violence. The network state concept emerged as a movement to create privatized cities that would be their own “countries” capable of surviving collapse. 

And, by the way, adherents of the network state believe it’s their job to help cause the collapse. This is called “acceleration.” They believe capitalism must accelerate toward “maximum destruction,” and that’s the only way to develop AI-enhanced societies properly.

Greenland is a territory where Dryden Brown, the head of a company called Praxis, has proposed a network state. Brown says he has $525 million in financing to build this enclave. The investors include Mark Andre, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and the Winklevoss twins.

Pop Up Cities

Tech sector elites have long expressed their desires to escape regulation and, as they see it, a failing democracy. The allure of tech-friendly havens unbound by legacy rules and regulations is attracting frustrated tech billionaires and millionaires.

“This whole movement is about reinventing governance for the 21st century, inspired by start-ups and the internet,” says Patri Friedman, grandson of free-market economist Milton Friedman and founder of Pronomos Capital, a venture firm that invests in experimental cities.

Friedman seeks to create cities that operate like for-profit companies rather than under democratically elected officials. It’s reminiscent of Ayn Rand, who in Atlas Shrugged imagined a free-market enclave called Galt’s Gulch. The idea to create sovereign mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation, is a challenge to global order. However, traditional forms of governance will not be in play. “We are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities,” Friedman says. “And if you’re not into that, you shouldn’t move there.”

One of the most advanced network state experiments is the Próspera domain. It is a gated private community in Honduras run by a Delaware-based company. The vision is to have a place where 1,000 residents can enjoy co-working spaces, a beach resort, and a golf course. As a “for-profit semi-autonomous zone,” Próspera will have low taxes, its own labour rules, and an arbitration system run by retired Arizona judges who hear cases online.

Another iteration of the network state is the “pop-up city,” which is a sort of weeks-long temporary brainstorming town. In 2025, Edge City hosted a month-long pop-up in Patagonia. Five hundred attendees, or “residents,” took part in projects focused on artificial intelligence and longevity.

The idea of the pop-up city is to create a space for what Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin calls a “micro exit.” This is a temporary exit to experiment, and then “go back and spread those learnings around the world,” as Timour Kosters says, co-founder of Edge City, which advertises itself as a “society incubator.”

Praxis, besides eyeing Greenland, recently announced plans to start a permanent “defence-focused spaceport city” called Atlas at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, which already houses Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin.

The Genesis of the Network State Concept

The principal architect of the network state is Balaji Srinivasan, the former chief technology officer of Coinbase. He reimagined nations as digital communities. His theory is that internet companies, internet currencies, and internet communities will eventually fuse with nation-states. 

By leveraging cryptographic security, Decentralised Finance (DeFi), smart contracts, and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs), Srinivasen sees network states as parallel institutions that offer greater autonomy and resilience against censorship or coercion.

There are now various companies working towards the idea of a network state, including Praxis, Zuzalu, Prospera, and Nation3.

Srinivasen’s network state prioritizes shared values and digital connection over physical borders, “aiming to achieve sovereignty through collective action and economic strength,” much like a startup society built from the internet up.

In 2025, Srinivasen held a Network State Conference in Singapore, where Ethereum, Coinbase, Solana, Telegram, and many others gathered to discuss how to materialize their cloud communities into the physical world.

How The Network State Works:

1. Gather like-minded people online who share a vision and set of values.
2. Develop an internal economy, currency, and governance (like a DAO).
3. Collectively purchase or build physical properties (houses, apartments, land) globally.
4. Digitally connect these scattered physical locations into a single, unified “state”.
5. Leverage its size and coherence to demand and eventually achieve sovereign status.

CONCLUSION

The principles championed by the cypherpunk movement of the 1990s laid the foundation for using encryption to secure privacy, resist surveillance, and empower individuals against centralized control. 

The network state sees itself as the fruition of cypherpunk ideologies. This digitally coordinated society can establish its own economic and political framework, ultimately challenging nation-states’ monopolies over governance and sovereignty.

The appeal of the network state lies in the ability to create new systems of governance and societal organisation without being constrained by historical legacies or bureaucratic inertia.

Encrypted messaging platforms, peer-to-peer data exchanges, and blockchain-based identity systems will allow network states to function while resisting external pressures to create, as Balaji Srinivasen says, “a future in which individuals have greater agency over their financial, political, and social lives, reshaping the landscape of statehood itself.”

SOURCES

Articles:

1. Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7
2. Network States – Revolutionary Idea To Potential New Asset Class https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/12/20/network-states–revolutionary-idea-to-potential-new-asset-class/

Books:

1. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian
2. Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age by Raymond Craib 
3. The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State by Michael Steinberger 

Other:

1. The Network State Conference https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJg2RipiXz8oDoMPCsmOVI_UEaSNbgjA6
2. balajis.com / https://balajis.com/p/network-state-conference
3. Lucid Q&A with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Gil Durán https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI5aJhTVjVo
4. Mountainhead: 2025 movie written and directed by Jesse Armstrong

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IN THE BEGINNING…

Since the founding of BridgeView, I recognized the decision-making power that unified dashboards presented. For decades, I witnessed how the tech industry embraced the benefits of intrinsically coded software that increases visibility by cutting horizontally across siloed data sources to extract and unify information in an easy-to-understand format on a single pane of glass, e.g., a dashboard.

Throughout the 1990s, the tech industry was blind to the benefits of how software could provide decision-makers with valuable information about the health of the hardware that their companies run on. In fact, most hardware manufacturers include their monitoring software with their switches and routers. In this era of infrastructure build-out, organizations’ on-premises switches, wide-area networks (WANs), and routers were often comprised of different vendors, each with its own brand of “afterthought” monitoring software. Rudimentary data was gathered, but nothing worked as a cohesive system. But the industry was sensing the benefits of robust reporting.

In the early days of data center construction, pre-cloud, I had clients produce dashboards that collected energy use and data center aisle temperature for data center optimization. At this point, organizations could see how their data center portfolios were performing and optimize accordingly. I often compared this type of interface to an automobile’s dashboard, e.g., you probably would never buy a car without a dashboard that shows fuel level, charging voltage, oil temperature, and miles per hour.

​I then began exploring how to build a unified dashboard for my company’s PR campaigns. However, in 2006, it was cost-prohibitive for a small start-up PR agency to spend 10s of thousands of dollars to create such a thing. This was a time when Microsoft was still charging $100s to use its office suite. I knew there was gold there, but I did not have the capital to mine the IP mountain. But! Things were quickly changing.

​In the mid-2000s, Amazon introduced the industry to the “cloud,” and computing became “elastic.” Soon, software became “a service,” and I was getting closer to realizing my vision. Companies were now leveraging this elastic computing power to sell software services. New organizations quickly sprang up that purchased fractional computing to customize software services for their clients.

Storage and compute power prices had come down at this point, though they were still out of reach for a small agency. I spoke with a software developer about bringing my vision of a unified PR dashboard to life. After weeks of digital whiteboarding, we had a process mapped out. Then came the horse pill, the development price. Developing this accounted for nearly 10% of my company’s net revenue. I still had the passion, but not the profit.

The problem is that agencies tend to point to impressions and outdated advertising value equivalency (AVE) metrics—vanity numbers that don’t connect press coverage to website traffic, lead generation, or revenue. Without placement-level ROI, executives are left making million-dollar budget decisions in the dark.

AI BRINGS IP TO THE PEOPLE WITH VIBECODING

​Now, you don’t need to know code to code thanks to a new AI trend called “vibecoding.” AI tools are enabling non-technical people to create apps and websites by typing prompts into a text box. Put in a prompt, and these tools will create a design, choose a software package and programming language, and then build what you want.

​Engineers these days are becoming increasingly surprised by how little coding they need to do. From punch-card programming to machine code, to Java and Python, coding has evolved. We are now in the “agent” era. AI agents are autonomous software systems that can perceive their own digital environments, use reason to pursue goals, and take actions on your behalf to complete tasks, rather than simply waiting to respond to prompts.

​BRIDGEVIEW MARKETING BRINGS PR ROSETTA STONE™ TO THE INDUSTRY

​And now, finally! I have my PR reporting system that shows real business impact. BridgeView Marketing is launching PR Rosetta Stone™, an AI-enabled reporting system that finally shows executives exactly how earned media drives website traffic, search visibility, AI discoverability, and revenue-relevant engagement.

​Unlike legacy PR reports, PR Rosetta Stone™ provides decision-grade intelligence by unifying:

• Earned media performance across all placements
• Backlink quality using MOZ authority scoring
• Google Analytics 4 (GA4) traffic intelligence
• Large Language Model (LLM) visibility signals for AI-era discoverability
• Sales-relevant web traffic insights to identify potential leads

The result? A push-button analysis that replaces subjective guesswork with verifiable impact.

This matters because search has evolved beyond Google. AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity now play a critical role in brand discovery. These systems value the same signals that strong PR delivers: authority, quality backlinks, editorial credibility, and consistent earned media.

CONCLUSION

Most PR agencies still report using metrics from the pre-digital era. PR Rosetta Stone™ brings measurement into the AI age. This new approach provides a more realistic, cost- and ROI-based view of the work being done, making the data highly usable for executive presentations. The way PR Rosetta Stone™ hierarchically weights MOZ authority, audience reach, and follower credibility is both unique and highly valuable. Even more powerful is the aggregated correlation of referral traffic and media coverage spikes.

With the introduction of PR Rosetta Stone™, BridgeView Marketing is redefining how PR value is measured—transforming earned media from a subjective exercise into a measurable, revenue-aligned business function.

PR Rosetta Stone™ is currently available to retainer-based clients as part of BridgeView Marketing’s PR services.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4tmyvCH

About BridgeView Marketing: For over two decades, BridgeView Marketing has specialized in technology-driven PR and communications, delivering earned media strategies and measurable outcomes for tech companies worldwide.

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Vibecoding is commonly used shorthand for how AI tools are enabling non-technical people to create apps and websites by typing prompts into a text box. All you need is an idea. Describe what you want — summarize podcasts, organize bookmarks into a searchable database, make an app which scans the contents of a fridge to assist with packing a child’s lunch for school — explain the gist (the vibe), the AI writes the code for you, and whoa, it’s done! You now have an app to do that thing you’ve always wanted to be able to do.

Cursor, Replit, Bolt, and Lovable are all vibecoding tools. Give them a prompt, and they will create a design, choose a software package and programming language, and then build what you want. This can take minutes or several hours, depending on the project’s complexity. Unrestricted use is limited, and paid tiers unlock additional features.

A widely used vibecoding tool today is called Claude Code. The program was introduced by Anthropic in 2025. Here are two ways it has been used:

• A man created a program that sorts his daughters’ laundry. He created a database of the articles of clothing. Now, if he doesn’t know whose shirt is whose, he shows the shirt to his phone camera, and it tells him which of his three daughters’ piles of clothing to put it into.
• A man who owns a welding business built an AI assistant that connects to his calendar, Google Sheets, and Gmail account, so he can easily create estimates, track job progress, and organize contracts.

Vibecoding, however, is not just a toy for hobbyists. Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said that AI-generated code made up more than one-fourth of all new code deployed at Google. And that statement was made over a year ago. Ricursive Intelligence, founded by two former Google employees, is automating the creation of artificial intelligence itself. AI that improves the creation of AI.​

Ricursive’s goal is to make AI systems that can improve the design of computer chips. Better chips, better AI systems. “Recursion” is a term that refers to a mathematical function or procedure that feeds itself. After some information is generated, the program uses it to generate more information, and this process can go on forever. The company is less than a year old, has fewer than 10 employees, and was recently valued at $4 billion.

Engineers these days are somewhat surprised by how little coding they need to do themselves anymore. From punch-card programming to machine code, to Java and Python, coding has evolved, and we are now in the “agent” era. AI agents are autonomous software systems that can perceive their own digital environments, use reason to pursue goals, and take actions on your behalf to complete tasks, rather than simply waiting to respond to prompts.

So, if you feel like you’re way behind on the coding curve, do not worry. You can now make a wish and watch it come true with AI An agent will create your code, work with you to tweak it, and then minutes later, you’ve completely organized your daughter’s upcoming wedding in the fall — invitations sent, rooms booked, food good-to-go, and now all that’s left is for the wedding singer to get in tune.

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We brought Jephy Pothen of SecurityBridge forward and helped him produce this article to underscore the value of SAP GRC. He knows that advantage matters because SAP environments remain some of the most targeted systems in the enterprise, yet many organizations still confuse audit-readiness with security: SAP GRC supports governance and compliance, but it does not provide real-time threat detection, continuous monitoring, technical vulnerability visibility, or ABAP custom-code scanning. 

Originally posted by the GRC Report at https://www.grcreport.com/post/why-governance-tools-miss-what-hackers-exploit, this is a must-read for anyone concerned with SAP.

Key Takeaways

• Compliance Does Not Equal Security: SAP GRC supports audits and controls but does not protect against live cyber threats.
• Lack of Real-Time Detection Creates Exposure: Without continuous monitoring, attackers can operate undetected for extended periods.
• Periodic Risk Assessments Are Insufficient: Scheduled reviews leave gaps that attackers can exploit between cycles.
• Integration Gaps Weaken Security Posture: Poor connectivity with SIEMs, endpoint tools, and scanners creates blind spots and slows response.
• Technical Vulnerabilities Go Unseen: SAP GRC does not identify misconfigurations, missing patches, or custom code flaws.
• Custom ABAP Code Is a Major Risk Vector: Unscanned custom code introduces exploitable weaknesses such as SQL injection and hardcoded credentials.

Deep Dive

SAP systems store sensitive business data, run mission-critical processes, and ensure that operations continue uninterrupted. However, having the SAP GRC product suite or similar governance, risk, and compliance tools does not cover all aspects of system security. Relying on them to keep you safe is a recipe for infiltration.

Relying on compliance with audit requirements doesn’t mean that you are protected against cyberattacks. In addition, governance tools (such as GRC) do not detect cyber threats as they occur, and ensuring you are ready for a scheduled audit does not guarantee immunity from attacks. Poor integration with other components of your security ecosystem, inability to real-time scan for lateral movement vulnerabilities, and overlooking the regular scanning of ABAP (advanced business application programming) code are all problems that need addressing.

This article will explain these inadequacies, omissions, and how to address them.

Compliance ≠ Security

The first thing to understand is that compliance does not necessarily equate to security. SAP GRC can help manage risk and ensure compliance with internal controls and regulations. However, as stated earlier, merely meeting audit requirements does not guarantee protection against cyberattacks. Locking your front door may satisfy stipulations in your insurance policy, but if you leave the windows open, burglars can still gain entrance. Compliance will not prevent cyberattacks.

No Real-Time Threat Detection

The second element to understand follows logically from the first: you must have real-time threat detection. Tools such as GRC are not designed to detect cyber threats as they happen. Notifications of attack will not be delivered if someone is attempting to log in with false credentials or accessing sensitive data at unusual times of the day (ie, outside regular business hours). If you do not have real-time detection, hackers may have already infiltrated your system days or even months ago.

Reactive Risk Models

It’s common for GRC tools to put risk assessments on a periodic schedule—say monthly, quarterly, or annually. If you’re delaying evaluation of risks for weeks or months, then you’re leaving your organization exposed. Itś essential to adhere to these schedules to avoid elevated risk exposure.

Poor Integration = Blind Spots

It’s common for GRC tools to have difficulty integrating with other components of your security ecosystem. For example, suppose these tools are not connected to SIEM systems, endpoint tools, or vulnerability scanners. In that case, you will have blind spots in your overall security posture and slower incident response times.

Lack of Vulnerability Management

Many organizations are unaware that SAP GRC does not scan for technical vulnerabilities. This results in problems such as outdated kernel patches, insecure transport, or misconfigured parameters that are not detected. These are just a few areas it misses. Vulnerabilities in custom code can also be exploited, and transport layers can become areas of risk, as well. Without automatic scanning and prioritization, your team may remain unaware of these weaknesses.

Too Narrow a Focus

GRC platforms have too narrow a focus. They primarily concentrate on identity and access management. What they do not concentrate on is determining who has access to specific resources and whether that access aligns with your policies. Once hackers penetrate your systems, they can move laterally, exploit vulnerabilities, or deploy malware—none of which is addressed by identity management tools.

Custom Code: The Silent Risk

And lastly, custom code is a silent risk. Most SAP environments rely heavily on custom ABAP code. However, custom code is often overlooked during standard security reviews. If you’re not scanning this code regularly, you render yourself susceptible to significant issues such as SQL injection, hardcoded passwords, and insecure integrations. These are some of the hackers’ favorite weaknesses; attackers love them because they’re hard to detect and easy to exploit.

Your SAP Landscape Requires a Strategy

The ability to detect threats as they occur is crucial. Real-time monitoring gives you immediate visibility into suspicious activities, policy violations, and unauthorized changes. Continuously scanning your SAP environment for vulnerabilities and ranking them based on severity is paramount for prioritizing fixes. And when your SAP alerts are connected to your SIEM, you can respond to threats in context and act quickly and effectively.

Additionally, automated code scanning tools enable you to identify vulnerabilities before they are exploited. Embedding security checks into your development process (also known as DevSecOps) will help ensure that every new release is thoroughly vetted and secured. This will reduce attack surfaces and create a culture of security in your SAP lifecycle.

Conclusion

System governance, proper detection, and reliable vulnerability management, along with an integrated system that covers the entire SAP stack, are optimal protection. GRC tools have importance, but they do not provide complete protection. A strong SAP security posture requires:

• Real-time monitoring and threat detection
• Automated scanning for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
• Integrated response and visibility across systems
• Custom code analysis and DevSecOps practices

When these pieces work together, you can be assured that you have proactive security, as opposed to reactive.

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Rare Earth Minerals: Batteries, Soldiers, Magnets, and China

“The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths.” ~ Deng Xiaoping

Since the 1990s, China has built and maintained a monopoly over rare earth minerals, which are key components in cell phones, computers, renewable energy technology, electric vehicles, military weapons, and many other electronic products. Rare earth minerals, however, are not rare despite their name. They are found in significant quantities worldwide, but they are difficult to extract and refine.

Data centers in the U.S. rely on China for rare earth minerals used in batteries. Reliable power is key to successful data center operations, and batteries have become increasingly critical for backup power. It might be alarming to realize that the data centers powering America’s artificial intelligence industry are reliant on China.

“Electricity is not simply a utility,” the A.I. giant OpenAI said in an October [2025] letter. “It’s a strategic asset that will secure our leadership on the most consequential technology since electricity itself.”

Besides data centers, the U.S. military is also concerned about China’s control over rare earths. The Tomahawk missile’s accuracy is enabled by magnets made of samarium, a rare-earth metal processed almost exclusively in China. Ukraine needs millions of rare-earth batteries from China to power its drones, lasers, and other weapons.

To put it simply: China has rare earth dominance, and a reliable supply of rare earth minerals is a critical component of every nation’s energy security, which is really indistinguishable from national security.

The demand for rare earth minerals assures that, for governments and corporations, 2026 is going to be about finding deposits, or at least workarounds. NASA has already been put to the task. Flying planes more than 10 miles above the Earth, NASA is currently involved in a mapping project designed to locate minerals in the U.S.

Today, China mines 70 percent of the world’s rare earths and processes about 90 percent of them. America’s current dependence on China for rare earths is not sustainable.

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The 17 Rare Earth Elements

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How China Got Its Stranglehold on Rare Earths

In 2025, China used its rare earth monopoly to cut off Western companies’ access, and when it did, industry giants such as Ford and Tesla were rattled, forcing the U.S. to the table for trade talks. But how did China get such power?

Beginning in the 1990s, the Chinese government provided financial support to the country’s leading mineral companies, passed laws preventing foreign companies from buying rare earth mines in China, and banned the export of rare earth technologies. Eventually, it consolidated its rare earth industry into a few giant players, giving it further leverage over prices.

The result was that China created a supply chain of mines and refineries. When the U.S. tried to reignite its rare earth enterprises, China flooded the market with minerals, throwing Western producers into a tailspin.

As Western rare earth companies’ valuations collapsed from the low prices caused by soaring Chinese production, they were forced to slow their expansions, and in some cases, sell their mines to Chinese buyers.

Beijing had a methodical approach to dominating the industry—and it now accounts for around 90% of global refined supply.

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Batteries In The Military

The auto industry has long faced the problem of Chinese battery dominance, but now this disparity is being viewed as a national security threat. Currently, the U.S. relies on Chinese supply chains for batteries to power its weapons programs. The U.S. needs alternative sources of rare earths so that its ability to make weapons does not depend on the goodwill of a potential adversary. Breaking China’s rare earth monopoly is crucial for America’s national security.

“Every Chinese export restriction since 2022 has reverberated directly onto the battlefield,” said Catarina Buchatskiy, a defense expert at the Snake Island Institute, which focuses on military technology.

Lasers, handheld radios, night-vision goggles, satellites, and drones all use batteries that contain rare earth elements. The average soldier carries as much as 25 pounds of batteries for a standard 72-hour patrol.

Elaine K. Dezenski, an expert on geopolitical risk and supply-chain security at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said, “When we think about the future of manufacturing and defense, and how we should be protecting critical supply chains, the chips are the brain, and batteries are the heart.”

As Europe faces a more aggressive Russia and an increasingly isolationist America, it, too, is realizing that it must break China’s control over rare earths. The EU imports about 98 percent of its rare earths from China. After Beijing tightened export controls on rare earth elements in 2025, EU President Ursula von der Leyen was forced to take steps to diversify the bloc’s supply chains of rare earth elements.

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The U.S. Needs to Break China’s Grip On Rare Earths

The Trump administration has taken some steps to end China’s dominance of rare earths. In July of 2025, the Defense Department invested $400 million to take a 15 percent stake in MP Materials, a Texas company that owns a rare earth mine in California.

In Texas, men dressed in head-to-toe protective gear dip giant ladles into a well of molten metal heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. They’re making something the U.S. has hardly, if ever, produced at a commercial scale in recent decades: Rare earth metals.

This Texas facility is completing a supply chain so it can start converting large quantities of its minerals into high-grade magnets. As a result, the company has entered into agreements to produce magnets for Apple and General Motors. This facility and the mine it controls in California (which is now the largest source of rare earth minerals in the Western Hemisphere) are a billion-dollar bet that an American company can take on China.

However, constructing all the mines, refineries, and factories needed to provide an alternative to Chinese supplies will take years. Beyond ventures such as MP Materials, the administration is also seeking to pursue deep-sea mining projects and partner with African mines that are not yet under Chinese control.

The Trump administration understands that the U.S. must find sources of rare earths outside of China, which is why it has established a policy of buying ownership stakes in private companies it deems essential to national security. The Defense Department will take a 10 percent stake in a rare earth mine in Alaska, and the government also announced an equity deal with a North Carolina-based start-up that makes rare earth magnets.

Officials estimate it will take more than $3 billion in investment to reshore supply chains.

Three Innovative Rare Earth Companies

1. Phoenix Tailings is a U.S. start-up seeking to break China’s rare earth monopoly. Recently, they began producing metal in New Hampshire and are using new processing methods to compete with Chinese suppliers. The metal will be used to make electric vehicle motors and maybe fighter jets. Phoenix Tailings has been awarded more than $6 million in federal funding.

Metal making is the final step in the long, often fragmented process of rare earth refining. Eventually, Phoenix Tailings aims to control all of those stages, taking in waste from iron mining — known as tailings — removing the rare earths and separating them into individual elements to be made into metal.

2. Arnold Magnetic Technologies, a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer of samarium-cobalt magnets, realized that America’s ability to produce missiles was threatened during the recent tariff war. So, they stepped up to keep the supply chain flowing. The Tomahawk missiles’ accuracy is possible because their fins use powerful magnets made of samarium — a rare earth metal that can tolerate high heat. Unless new sources of samarium, or a substitute, can be found, America won’t be able to build precision-guided missiles or fighter jets. Luckily, Arnold Magnetic Technologies had over a year’s supply of the metal on hand when China announced its export controls on April 4th of 2025.

3. Conifer, a start-up in Sunnyvale, California, has developed a compact, disc-shaped electric motor that operates without rare earth magnets. Weary of geopolitics, car companies are now looking for ways to replace rare earth magnets in electric motors, including windshield wiper motors and mechanisms that adjust seats. Magnets made with the rare earth elements neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are essential for the motors that move electric vehicles and hybrids. BMW is using motors without neodymium or other rare earths in models like the iX sport utility vehicle.

Other exciting possibilities have arisen in North Carolina, where Vulcan Elements, a magnet maker, plans to supply the military starting next year. Another company in Texas, Noveon Magnetics Inc., has signed a deal to supply U.S.-made rare earth magnets for Japan’s Nidec, which is among the world’s biggest motor makers. And a German magnet company, VAC, is expected to begin operating a large, Pentagon-funded factory in South Carolina later this year.

CONCLUSION

The U.S. has signed trade deals for the mining and refining of rare earths with Australia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. The U.S. also has significant underground reserves of rare earth elements. Both are good news, because China has powerful leverage over the U.S. through rare earth metals, which are essential to cars, fighter jets, drones, smartphones, computers, M.R.I. machines, and a wide array of electronics.

It’s great that a Texas company with a California mine (MP Materials) has stepped up to take on China; however, the magnets are likely to be 50% more expensive to produce than China’s, which is now actually tweaking magnet formulas to avoid using certain restricted rare earth elements and devising ways to make superior magnets without rare earths.

When China put restrictions on rare earth exports in 2025, it cut off the supply of rare earth metals to U.S. defense contractors. That forced the U.S. to make a deal with two European companies, which gave it access to a new but limited source. The administration has also given an $80 million loan to an Indiana firm that is using new technology to process rare earth elements. And a Canadian company has received $22.4 million in grant funding from the U.S. military to build a facility in Louisiana dedicated to producing rare earth elements.

Protecting U.S. access to rare earths needs to be a bipartisan, long-term project. The need is glaring! However, the federal government must be careful with picking winners and losers. It might be best to keep in mind the notion that when a government starts deciding which companies deserve special treatment, the result isn’t prosperity—it’s distortion. It’s always been supposed that the free market allocates resources best when prices reflect real costs. Political promises can cross those signals, short-circuiting efficiency and innovation.

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ADDENDUM: RARE EARTH SOURCES OTHER THAN CHINA

Japan has met its rare earth needs by importing minerals from Australia. Japan’s program depends on government subsidies. Without it, it would not be profitable for private companies to make the investments needed to mine and process rare earths and compete with China’s heavily subsidized products.

Brazil has 23% of global reserves of rare earth minerals, second only to China, but its production is still at an early stage, accounting for only 1% of the worldwide market. Minaçu, a small city in Brazil, is set to become the first rare earth mining operation outside Asia to produce rare earth on a commercial scale.

Greenland and its rare earth reserves are on President Trump’s radar. The administration has reportedly been engaged in negotiations to invest in mining operations located in Greenland. Greenland is believed to have significant oil deposits and a variety of minerals, including rare earth elements.

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Originally posted by CIO Influence at https://cioinfluence.com/security/securitybridge-announces-ceo-transition-to-accelerate-global-expansion/

SecurityBridge, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions for SAP, announced the appointment of Jesper Zerlang as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2026. Zerlang transitions from his role as Chairman of the Board, a position he has held for the past 12 months, as the company enters its next phase of international expansion, backed by funds advised by BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital (BU).

SecurityBridge protects SAP environments for large enterprises by reducing cyber risk across mission-critical SAP landscapes. The company is trusted by global customers to safeguard systems that power core operations, financial processes, supply chains, and digital transformation programs.

“SecurityBridge is uniquely positioned at the intersection of cybersecurity and SAP – a domain I know deeply and care about profoundly,” said Jesper Zerlang, CEO of SecurityBridge. “Over the past year, as Chairman, I have seen firsthand the strength of the team, the technology, and the outcomes we deliver for customers. With BU’s support and a clear ambition to scale internationally, I am excited to step into the CEO role to accelerate global impact while raising the bar on trust and customer outcomes.”

Leadership Transition and Founder Roles

SecurityBridge founders Christoph Nagy and Ivan Mans will transition out of their day-to-day operational roles as CEO and CTO, respectively. They will remain strategically central to the business in pivotal roles focused on product evangelism and high-impact, customer-driven initiatives, leveraging their SAP engineering depth, credibility, and long-term product vision.

“SecurityBridge has grown into a remarkable company with a strong foundation and a clear mission,” said Nagy, Co-Founder of SecurityBridge. “This transition strengthens the company’s ability to scale globally while allowing us to focus where we create the greatest value for customers: product leadership, innovation, and engagement with the SAP ecosystem.”

“We are fully supportive of this exciting transition and look forward to contributing in roles that amplify our technical focus and customer impact. SecurityBridge’s opportunity ahead is significant, and this step positions the company strongly for the next stage,” added Ivan Mans, Co-Founder of SecurityBridge.

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“Star Wars” Is Now

On May 9, 2025, Russian hackers successfully hijacked a satellite that provided television service to Ukraine. Instead of their favorite programming, people in Ukraine saw footage of Putin presiding over the Victory Day parade in Red Square–a move that signaled that the war in space is here.

Taking out a satellite can be done by breaching its software; the resulting damage to forces on the ground could be enormous—imagine if troops lost their GPS. Satellites play a significant role in military operations, including navigation systems, intelligence, supply chains, and launch detection. Hackers always look for the weakest link. If a satellite is running on outdated software–that could be it.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, it used malware to infect tens of thousands of modems that caused an outage affecting vast swaths of Europe.

The Russia-linked Viasat hack affected tens of thousands of people in Ukraine and across Europe, with outages impacting several thousand Ukrainian internet users and tens of thousands of customers using satellite services provided by Viasat’s subsidiary. The attack also disrupted remote connectivity for approximately 6,000 wind turbines in Germany and affected fixed broadband customers in other European countries like France, Hungary, Greece, Italy, and Poland. 

If that’s not alarming enough, think about this:

National security officials say Russia is developing a nuclear, space-based weapon designed to take out virtually every satellite in low-Earth orbit at once. The weapon would combine a physical attack that would ripple outward, destroying more satellites, while the nuclear component is used to fry their electronics.

It’s not just the physical conflicts on Earth that are raising concerns; the battle over the Moon could soon be on. The Moon is full of helium-3, which could be used for nuclear fusion. Control of the Moon could be the deciding factor in determining which countries will become superpowers. “This isn’t sci-fi. It’s quickly becoming a reality,” Joseph Rooke, a cybersecurity expert, said. “If you dominate Earth’s energy needs, that’s game over.” China and Russia have already announced plans for a joint nuclear power project on the Moon.

The U.S. Space Force was created in 2019 in part to defend U.S. satellites from attack. “Space is a warfighting domain, and it is the Space Force’s job to contest and control its environment to achieve national security objectives,” it said in the statement.

Though Darth Vader may not be kicking down any space station doors, hackers certainly are trying to knock out satellites, and the race to dominate the Moon appears to be on. 

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First: Some Terms

Singularity—a hypothetical future point when AI surpasses human intelligence

AGI—an AI system capable of doing everything the human brain can 

Orthogonality—the notion that intelligence and benevolence are separate traits, and that an AI system would not automatically get friendlier as it gets smarter 

Instrumental Convergence—the idea that a robust, goal-directed AI system could adopt strategies that end up harming humans

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Copyrights

On June 23, 2025, the landmark decision Bartz v. Anthropic held that using copyrighted books to train large language models (“LLMs”) qualifies as fair use when the books are lawfully obtained. However, the use of unlawfully obtained, pirated copies of those books did not constitute fair use in the same manner.

Avatars

Chinese virtual human salespeople are outperforming their real human counterparts. Shanghai-based marketing company, PLTFRM, says it has deployed avatars across Chinese e-commerce sites like Alibaba’s Taobao and Pinduoduo, the sister site of Temu. These avatars rely on AI video models and large language models to generate scripts. They are programmed to share basic information about what they’re selling, as well as greet the audience and respond to questions. Companies switching to AI avatars are seeing sales rise by up to 30 percent. 

A recent report by the online creation platform Kapwing found that computer-generated celebrities are amassing millions of followers — and dollars — for the teams behind them. An AI influencer named “Miquela” has appeared on magazine covers, released music, and served as the face of campaigns for Calvin Klein and Prada, all while purporting to be a Brazilian American teen from Downey, Calif.

Growth

AI spending is propping up the U.S. economy. The trillions of dollars that tech companies are investing in new data centers are starting to contribute to economic growth. The substantial investment in data centers, semiconductor factories, and power supply required to build the computing power that AI demands is boosting the U.S. economy. Investment in software and computer equipment, not counting the data center buildings, accounted for a quarter of all economic growth this past year, data from the Commerce Department shows. 

Power

Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business. Computers training and running AI systems consume far more energy than machines that stream Netflix or TikTok. A rush to build power plants and transmission lines is on, as big tech companies pivot to AI, and this boom threatens to drive up power bills for residents and small businesses.

Doctors

Physicians are using AI for diagnoses. It has aided them in spotting cancer, to make diagnoses faster, and helped them more accurately predict who’s at risk of complications. However, a study found that after just three months of using an AI tool designed to help identify precancerous growths, doctors were significantly less effective at finding the growths on their own.

Artificial intelligence is being used to detect hidden signs of consciousness in comatose patients, and it is identifying these signs long before doctors notice them. Using an algorithm, the researchers were able to analyze patients’ facial movements, including tiny changes that were too discrete to be visually noticeable, but could be clinically meaningful. Known as “covert consciousness,” people in this state can respond to cues through their brain activity, even as they appear to be completely comatose.

Antitrust

To help resolve a monopoly issue, a judge ordered Google to share its search results with competitors. In an attempt to level the tech playing field, Google was ordered to hand over some of its search data to rivals. The ruling in United States et al. v. Google, LLC. comes as generative artificial intelligence is threatening to replace traditional search engines. The judge wrote that the emergence of generative AI “changed the course of this case.” 

On August 25, 2025, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. The suit alleges that the partnership between Apple and OpenAI is an anti-competitive conspiracy meant to stifle rival AI companies and protect the iPhone’s dominance by manipulating App Store rankings to favor ChatGPT. As of the time of writing this article, the case is in its early stages.

Hallucination

A recent paper from OpenAI researchers sheds new light on why large language models (LLMs) are prone to “hallucination,” or fabricating information. According to the paper, the evaluation methods that major AI companies use encourage overconfidence. Performance tests often take the form of multiple-choice questions. Correct answers can unintentionally reward models for guessing. By optimizing their systems to achieve a high score on these evaluations, AI companies are training their models to be good test-takers instead of actually improving their overall accuracy. 

AI gets criticized because it makes up information that appears to be factual, known as hallucinations. In science, however, AI hallucinations can be remarkably useful. One of the most significant breakthroughs aided by AI is protein folding prediction, which accurately predicts the 3D structure of proteins. This fundamental molecular process greatly accelerates drug discovery and the understanding of diseases. In October of 2024, David Baker shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering research on proteins. Dr. Baker said his lab had taken a new step forward in creative imaginings with AI. The Nobel committee praised him for discovering how to build entirely new kinds of proteins not found in nature, calling his feat “almost impossible.”

Apocalypse

Eliezer Yudkowsky wants to shut it all down. For the past 20 years, he’s been warning AI insiders about its danger; now he’s going public with his message that building powerful AI systems is a terrible idea, one that will end in disaster. “If any company or group, anywhere on the planet, builds an artificial superintelligence using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of A.I., then everyone, everywhere on Earth, will die,” he writes.

CONCLUSION

The printing press was a significant advancement for propagating the news. However, with the truth came a lot of lies–so much disinformation was being spread in 17th-century England that King Charles banned publications from all foreign presses. The combustion engine drove the Industrial Revolution and trains across continents; it also contributed to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The telephone allowed us to talk to grandma, but it also permitted marketing scams. Splitting the atom ushered in an era of nuclear fission, behind the ability to generate massive amounts of clean, carbon-free electricity; it also killed many.

The era of AI is here. Its benefits and detriments have yet to be fully worked out — and both depend on what we do (and don’t do) now.

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Communications professionals should integrate these insights by developing disinformation threat assessments for clients, implementing early detection monitoring systems, creating crisis response protocols for coordinated attacks, and leveraging AI tools with ethical guardrails to identify false narratives. Most importantly, PR services must prioritize transparent, evidence-based messaging and community engagement strategies that build authentic trust and can withstand the scrutiny of an information environment where algorithms amplify sensational content over truth.

A 5-minute read that’s worth your time!

Cambridge Disinformation Summit (2025): Breakdown

The 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit was held in April at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. The gathering brought together global thought leaders to discuss research on the efficacy of potential interventions aimed at mitigating the harms caused by disinformation.

Researchers examined policies, regulations, enforcement, fact-checking, algorithmic issues, and the balance between free speech and other considerations. The conference was organized on the following core themes:

• Can specific interventions mitigate the harms of disinformation campaigns, whether they are scalable and might impose unintended consequences?

• Can laws be developed or enforced against disinformation actors who have acquired outsized wealth and power?

• How influencers leverage legitimate and perceived grievances around economic or social conditions to build communities that support exploitative movements in finance, crypto, and politics.  

The alarming and sad fact is that some individuals have financial or power incentives to intentionally disseminate false or misleading narratives to targeted audiences through select channels. Two examples are financial fraud and character assassination. 

At this point, we must clarify that disinformation and misinformation are distinct, although they tend to blend into each other, becoming fuzzy at their edges. Disinformation is a deliberate lie, while misinformation is more about sharing inaccurate information by mistake. So, for our purposes, we set the following definitions:  

• Misinformation = unintentional spread of false information.
• Disinformation = intentional creation and spread of false information to deceive.

The summit was held under the auspices of the University of Cambridge’s code on free speech, which has freedom of thought and expression as core values. The university, as stated in the code, “encourages staff, students and visitors to engage in robust, challenging, evidence-based and civil debate as a core part of academic inquiry…. even if you find the viewpoints expressed to be disagreeable, unwelcome or distasteful.”

It was reiterated throughout the summit that it is imperative to question the veracity of narratives before they are shared or even believed. Additionally, the summit was scientifically based and devoid of any particular political bias, as tomorrow’s disinformation actors may have completely different incentives and objectives. Keeping the focus on the underlying core architecture that applies to all forms of information-fueled harm campaigns is seen as a benefit for the future.

Many issues were discussed at the summit; here, we will focus on the issues of free speech and the dangers associated with disinformation. 

Free Speech & Algorithms

Nora Benavidez, a civil rights and free speech attorney, moderated a discussion on freedom of access to information, during which it was pointed out that even the scientists who study disinformation are now under attack. Some downplay the harm of disinformation to maintain or gain power. They reshape the narrative to say that those who research disinformation are attacking free speech.

Adam Price, a member of the Welsh Senedd, explained that we’re now in a world where algorithms are protected from free speech. We must ask, for example, whether choosing the information people see during an election is a form of protected free speech. Algorithms restrict people’s freedom of access to information. The hedge, he went on to elucidate, against the Nazis in Europe surrounding World War Two was to make it a criminal offense to spread false rumors. Finland, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland were the only countries that passed these kinds of laws — and they did not succumb internally to fascism. 

His point was that we must defend democracy from the enemies of democracy by making the spreading of deliberate deception for ideological reasons a criminal offense. His example was that there are laws that criminalize lies in advertising and laws that hold a company director accountable for lying when they’re in the process of selling shares, but with politics, it’s been a free-for-all.

EU MP Alexandra Geese talked about mechanisms, such as like-engagement ranking, and how they are limiting what people choose. The shocking stuff gets a lot of views, but is it freely chosen when it’s presented as the only option for viewing on social media platforms? 

Former UK MP Damian Collins shared that, unfortunately, today, some things aren’t true being pushed on social media feeds to capture attention, as money is being made from capturing that attention. His essential point was that interfering in other countries’ elections is widely illegal, so shouldn’t platforms that do this be held responsible? Without truth, you can’t have a national discourse. The crisis of truth is undermining the very fabric of democracy.  

Threats & Harm

Dr Julia Ebner explained that it’s a diverse landscape of threats. When it comes to anti-vaxxers, white supremacists, and jihadists, there is not one solution for all of these types of threats. That said, it is women who stand out. Disinformation campaigns disproportionately target them. This affects women in journalism, research, politics, and other fields. 

For women, the scale and the nature of the threat are different, and if you’re also from a minority background, then you get even more hatred. Male supremacist trends have surged in recent years, and there’s a substantial uptick in youth radicalization. Young boys are increasingly vulnerable and susceptible to becoming part of some of these radical groups. 

Over the last decade, numerous disinformation campaigns have targeted researchers and journalists. They have been perceived as political opponents. There has been a substantial rise in doxing, which involves posting personal information such as home addresses, office addresses, phone numbers, and bank details. Over the last few years, both the scale and nature of these threats have undergone significant changes. 

UNC Professor Alice Marwick explained how online harassment often prompts targeted individuals to go offline. The online threats can push people out of the public eye. The threats have been so hurtful and harmful that even high-profile public figures have left online discourse because they do not want to risk putting themselves or their families in danger. The result is that particular voices (i.e., minority voices) are pushed out of the public sphere.

Conclusion

One of the themes that arose most often in the summit was how social media algorithms don’t enhance human connection. As substacker Mike Brock explained, algorithms replace human connection with “engineered engagement designed to maximize screen time rather than genuine relationships. The algorithms don’t help us make better choices—they manipulate our choices through carefully calibrated dopamine hits that bypass conscious decision-making entirely.” So, meeting and talking to people is essential. For, as BBC Social Media Investigations correspondent Marianna Spring discussed, social media can distort the way people behave and notions of what’s acceptable.

Several methods for combating disinformation were outlined, including laws that prohibit disinformation, transparency in disinformation research, and community engagement (e.g., organizing an event to promote a banned book). But one of the most effective ways discussed to combat disinformation is through the use of AI. Although automation, AI, and bots have been exacerbating the disinformation problem by amplifying disinformation campaigns worldwide, driving up the volume of disinformation, and micro-targeting it, AI can also be designed to mitigate some of the worst aspects of polarization and identify disinformation. 

AI can be both a danger and an effective mechanism for responding to that danger. But that relies on the people who train it, maintain it, and use it. And so, yes, AI can play a critical role, but if we launch AI in the same way we launch social media, absent any guardrails to mitigate misuse, the problem could end up magnifying.

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Resources:

For a more in-depth analysis of disinformation and how to combat it, see the Cambridge Summit’s YouTube Channel.

For an excellent explanation of how to do a disinformation threat assessment and figure out how it might affect your business, read this guide written by Matt Gorham, Managing Director at the Cyber and Privacy Innovation Institute at PwC, on understanding the vulnerability to false and fraudulent information in your organization.

To understand the effects of harassment, read about how international chess master Divya Deshmukh had to deal with online sexism.

For an intense and heart-wrenching look at the effects of disinformation on individuals, families, and communities, see the Netflix series Adolescence. 

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