Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- That recent widely circulated video involving Senator Adams Oshiomhole aboard a private jet presents more than a mere momentary scandal. It exposes another layer to the insidious consequences of generative artificial intelligence and synthetic media whose ramifications we do not yet fully understand.

Over the years, scholarly and policy discussions around digital threats and information disorder often focused on misinformation and disinformation. Although Wardle and Derakhshan, in their 2017 research published by the Council of Europe, identified three types of Information Disorder, conversations around the world, including in Nigeria, have mostly focused on only the aforementioned duo, with Mal-information being the ...