{"id":24164,"date":"2025-11-25T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/?p=24164"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:33:16","slug":"fractured-facts-how-generative-ai-fuels-anti-immigrant-misinformation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/fractured-facts-how-generative-ai-fuels-anti-immigrant-misinformation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Philip-Mai_500x500-150x150-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20067 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most conversations about AI focus on convenience, like how it drafts emails or speeds up everyday tasks, but the real story runs deeper. As <strong>Philip Mai<\/strong> shared at the <a href=\"https:\/\/site.pheedloop.com\/event\/p2pvvp2025\/home\">Pathways to Prosperity Conference <\/a>in Halifax, the same tools that boost productivity are now shaping how Canadians encounter information about migration. With AI-generated images, videos, and posts becoming effortless to create and tougher to spot, the space between fact and fiction is widening.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2025\/04\/25\/two-thirds-of-canadians-have-experimented-with-generative-ai-but-most-dont-understand-its-impacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23454\" style=\"width:437px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This talk, Fractured Facts, digs into the Lab\u2019s latest findings on <a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2025\/05\/05\/new-report-the-state-of-generative-ai-use-in-canada-2025-exploring-public-attitudes-and-adoption-trends-2\/\">social media habits<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2025\/04\/25\/two-thirds-of-canadians-have-experimented-with-generative-ai-but-most-dont-understand-its-impacts\/\">AI adoption<\/a>, and the growing influence of generative systems in spreading anti-immigrant misinformation and why that shift should concern all of us. The <a href=\"http:\/\/p2pcanada.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) Partnership<\/a> is a national network that supports evidence-based policies and programs for immigrant settlement and integration in Canada. Its members include federal and provincial migration ministries, municipalities, newcomer-serving organizations, and researchers from across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-google-docs wp-block-embed-google-docs\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1xQyY2SZa_pwP25yRhj0-F0eH91aQ5zEtFjp52oyWTwM\/edit?usp=sharing\">Philip Mai -Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation<\/a><\/h4><p>Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation Fr: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1CNOMilUPAW4w9RjwqDw5LI8KUPkrJF0lBAh3pRVawf4\/edit?usp=sharing Welcome everyone. Today we&#8217;re going to discuss a critical and rapidly evolving topic: the impact of Generative AI on immi&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there, the talk moved through real examples from Canada, Germany, and the UK to show how AI-generated content is already shaping public attitudes. It highlighted deepfakes crafted to stoke anger at refugees, fake crime photos pushed out within hours of breaking news, and meme campaigns linked to far-right networks. These stories don\u2019t just distort public debate. They affect the safety and well-being of immigrants, and they put extra pressure on the organizations that serve them by undermining trust and fueling fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mai wrapped up by offering steps communities and frontline workers can use to blunt that impact. He walked through simple ways to spot manipulated media, check alarming claims, and guide clients through the risks they face online. He also previewed the Lab\u2019s upcoming Migration Ads Observatory, a dashboard that tracks migration-related ads across Meta\u2019s platforms to reveal emerging trends and narrative patterns. The aim is to give policymakers, researchers, and service providers the tools they need to understand how AI-driven misinformation spreads and shapes public attitudes toward immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more about this presentation, here&#8217;s the<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1xQyY2SZa_pwP25yRhj0-F0eH91aQ5zEtFjp52oyWTwM\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> link to the presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most conversations about AI focus on convenience, like how it drafts emails or speeds up everyday tasks, but the real story runs deeper. As Philip Mai shared at the Pathways to Prosperity Conference in Halifax, the same tools that boost productivity are now shaping how Canadians encounter information about migration. With AI-generated images, videos, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":24637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,38,665,494,37,587,265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-event","category-generative-ai","category-misinformation","category-politics","category-public-reports","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24182,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions\/24182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}