Disinformation in the City: Thematic Areas and Impact

Trijsburg, Ridge, Park, Pejic, and Costello | June 2025 Thematic Areas and Impact This brief is the second in a series of three published as part of the Disinformation in the City project, led by the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). In this brief, we refer to disinformation as shorthand for various kinds of information manipulation, acknowledging that such campaigns often contain elements of misrepresented truth (mal-information) and may reach wider audiences where groups or individuals unknowingly—and without intent to harm—share false information (misinformation)