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Fabrication industrialised
More than 1,000 synthetic videos from a single operation in one quarter, per Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center, and the fabricated dossier France’s Viginum attributed to it.
Research · Quarterly report
State of Narrative Attack: July 2026
The first edition of AI Uniti's quarterly report on the global narrative-attack landscape. Five structural shifts, every claim carried by a named source, and an Australia and Asia-Pacific spotlight.
What the July 2026 report covers
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The AI answer layer
"LLM grooming" formally named: NewsGuard audits measured leading chatbots repeating state-seeded falsehoods in 15 to 56 percent of tested cases.
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Markets and elections
A US federal conviction over narrative-driven trading, fake accounts at 17 percent of stock-ticker conversation, and synthetic pressure from the US midterms to Taiwan.
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The regulatory turn
EU AI Act deepfake-labelling obligations from 2 August 2026, DSA enforcement, and Australia’s most active regulatory half-year on record.