Irkutsk, a pending lab result and six rumours in a week.

Government communicators fight for precision, corporate communicators for restraint, and Irkutsk tests both.

Your next crisis focus group might not contain any humans.

Synthetic audiences can test messages in days, in private, at scale. What they can safely do for risk, crisis and emergency communicators is narrower than the demos suggest.

The Global Outlook has its first numbers, and there is still time to take part

The UN just mapped the global risk network. Disinformation sits at the centre of it.

The 2026 Global Risk Report separates what institutions can see from what they can act on and that gap is where practitioners now sit.

The AI threat is already documented. Is your crisis plan?

What 154 pages of AI misuse case studies mean for how you do your job