Disinformation and Information Collapse
Shared facts are becoming scarce at the moment they are most needed.
Severity score
45.7
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Coordinated influence operations, engagement-optimised platforms and now synthetic media have degraded the shared information base that public health, elections and disaster response all depend on. Detection consistently lags generation.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
18Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
84People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
52Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
2Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
86Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.