Laura Dowling

But then there's also, and I don't know if it's maybe where I'm at in my life right now, where I'm like...

There is a handful of white men of a certain vintage making a lot of decisions that are impacting generations to come.

And the excuses and the loud noise is not good enough anymore.

And the frustration is certainly with me and my team a lot.

And you see little tweaks and rollbacks in different settings or we won't look at that text today.

We're going to push that off or and like everything, the loud minority is making a lot of noise and

And the silent majority needs to start finding teeth again, myself included.

Well, we have more conversations like this.

And I think face to face and not to overstimulate everybody with statistics, but Europol, which is our EU policing agency, has over the years, particularly this year, said by the end of 2026, 90% of what we see online will be synthetically made, will be fake.

As in AI generated?

AI generated misinformation, disinformation.

And sometimes, you know, the narrative is always around younger people are getting this info.

I really worry about the plus 55 on the likes of Facebook.

You know, my parents who are getting...

bombarded with information, it looks real and it's not.

Or, you know, we're now in this three second attention span era where the headline means everything or the 280 characters of a tweet mean everything.

Where in actual fact, the content of the article is so far removed from the headline.

But we're not getting there in a critically thought process way.

Well, I mean, we're at the point where you have, as I said, the synthetically made, or I know we might discuss deep fakes, particularly impacting women and young girls.

But when you have in the wider field, when you have journalists being targeted,