Could it be true?: Deepfakes

Every week between now and the UK election, Tortoise's Alexi Mostrous and Patricia Clarke will examine claims from the campaign trail. Some will be outlandish, some believable. Some might even be true. This week: AI technologies and how they’re being used to manipulate voters. Or are they?

Could it be true?: Chaos agents

From Russian disinformation campaigns to Chinese spies, are foreign influence operations targeting the UK election?

Could it be true?: the platforms’ dilemma

Are the big social media platforms doing enough to tackle election misinformation? Or could they be doing too much?

Could it be true?: Is everything we’ve told you a lie?

A new academic paper says journalists regularly overstate the harms of online misinformation. In our final episode, Alexi Mostrous and Patricia Clarke speak to the paper’s author and reflect on their own reporting from the frontlines of the digital election campaign.