Governments have long used disinformation to destabilize publics, muddy accountability, and create atmospheres of deliberate confusion. Now, the rise of generative AI adds new layers to this fog, producing convincing falsehoods at astonishing speed and scale. In this session, investigative journalists and filmmakers probe the shifting terrain where truth itself can feel elusive and even unknowable.
How do journalists and documentary filmmakers navigate and expose realities when narratives are constantly rewritten and manipulated? What tools exist to cut through deliberate distortion—and what is the role of nonfiction cinema, with its unique capacity for storytelling and witnessing, in resisting the erosion of shared truth?