What it takes for voters to be resilience against AI misinformation
Political scientist Thessalia Merivaki discusses what conditions help voters resist AI-generated misinformation, addressing the growing challenge of maintaining informed electorates in an environment of synthetic and manipulated content.
Why this matters: Misinformation does not affect everyone equally. People with more time, better media literacy, and stronger social networks are more likely to catch it. Everyone else is more exposed. AI makes the problem faster and cheaper to run at scale, which means the gap between those who can tell what is real and those who cannot is likely to grow. Resilience is not just a personal skill. It is a design question about what platforms allow, what schools teach, and what governments are willing to regulate.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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