Dr Diaz Ruiz spoke about the emerging threat of agentic disinformation, including the risk of embedding current digital advertising (mal)practices in AI environments. Beltsazar Krisetya presented a Southeast Asian perspective on the extent to which governments in the region regulated the advertising supply chains.

JMM Special Issue Call for Papers on “The Disinformation Economy: Digital Markets of Influence, Conflict, and Polarization.”

Guest Editors: Carlos Diaz Ruiz, Hanken School of Economics, Sofia Ulver, Lund University & James Pamment, Psychological Defense Research Institute, Lund University

Carlos Diaz Ruiz, Associate Professor at Hanken School of Economics, is awarded the 2025 Thomas C. Kinnear Award together with Tomas Nilsson at Linnaeus University.