‘Fake news' is a global issue. Disinformation, the dissemination of deliberately misleading or false information, is damaging. Our public and democratic institutions scramble to respond with fact checkers , registers and legislation . Politicians decry it , schools have launched programs to educate against it, and even religious leaders from the Pope to the Indonesian Ulema Council are lending their weight to stop its spread. Yet disinformation persists, and it's gathering momentum.

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2023/09/06/1386111/disinformation-in-the-city-the-challenges-facing-australian-and-indonesian-local-governments

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