Follow the Money: How AI and Advertising are Intensifying the Global Information Crisis
The recent issue brief written by the United Nations information and the Conscious Advertising Network warns of an AI-driven global information integrity crisis, and makes the case for moving information integrity from brand safety consideration to core risk management strategy.
Join us on 20th May for a webinar to explore the report in detail, with the report authors: Charlotte Scaddan, Senior Adviser on Information Integrity, United Nations and Harriet Kingaby, co-founder of the Conscious Advertising Network, and Lameya Chaudhury, Director of Social Impact at Lucky Generals.
The report outlines how:
The open web is dying: Fuelled by generative AI and the rise of the “no-click internet,” independent journalism is being bypassed before it can even publish.
Brand safety is flawed: Current tools miss the nuance of high-risk AI-generated content while inadvertently bypassing legitimate news. The result? Budgets are actively funding polarisation.
Agentic AI risks creating more opacity: Media buying is now automated in milliseconds by agentic AI, threatening what little visibility we have on where our money actually goes.
Speakers:
Charlotte Scaddan leads work in UN Global Communications to achieve a healthier information ecosystem and implement the UN Global Principles for Information Integrity and related policy, advocating for action to make digital and offline information spaces safer and more humane while vigorously protecting human rights.
Harriet Kingaby is co-founder of the Conscious Advertising Network. A serial founder, speaker, thought leader and mentor accelerating solutions to information integrity. Working at the intersection of advertising, human rights and climate change.
Lameya Chaudhury is Director of Social Impact at Lucky Generals, working with brands to turn bold intentions into real-world impact. With a background spanning human rights, tech, and behaviour change, she explores how social impact can shape more meaningful brand strategy and storytelling. Passionate about moving beyond performative purpose, Lameya challenges businesses to create work that is culturally relevant, commercially effective, and accountable.
Moderator: Marsha Jackson, project director, the Conscious Advertising Network. Marsha has over 20 years’ experience driving strategy, governance, and delivery across publishing, production, and purpose-led organisations to ensure effective operations and mission-focus.
This 60-minute webinar will explore the uncomfortable truths uncovered by the report, and the clear path forward: object-level transparency in advertising supply chains and a shift toward Human Rights-responsible advertising.
Download the report here.