SocietyDigital distrust and polarisation: ‘We need to get back to engaging with one another as a society’

François Picard speaks with Valdemar Osted, partner and head of technology at Danish digital consultancy Common Consultancy, about whether fear of disinformation can threaten democracy as much as disinformation itself. Osted disputes widely circulated claims that attacks on Russian data centres suddenly caused online engagement to collapse among Donald Trump supporters and Germany’s far-right AfD supporters.