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Marcus Beard is a leading expert on disinformation, AI, and digital narratives. While serving at 10 Downing Street, he focused on countering Russian state disinformation and led the national digital counter-misinformation team during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through Fenimore Harper, he now provides analysis and strategic insights on the evolving digital landscape.

For contributions or analysis on disinformation, misinformation, AI and digital trends please contact marcus@fenimoreharper.com or WhatsApp/call on +447809323683


VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

2025

14 Mar - ITV’s ‘Tonight’ - Celebrity Scams: Are You at Risk? with Alex Beresford

13 Mar - MailOnline - Martin Lewis's 'trusted' face most commonly misused on scam adverts

12 Mar - The Mirror - ‘I lost £150,000 in fake Rod Stewart scam using AI trick that would fool anyone'

14 Feb - Digital Trends - Our reliance on AI-generated news could lead to more bank runs, per new report

14 Feb - Reuters - AI-generated content raises risks of more bank runs, UK study shows

23 Jan - BBC One’s ‘Rip Off Britain’ - Scammed by fake AI celebrities - Expert appearance

12 Jan - Times Radio - Is Elon Musk being fed Labour attack lines?

7 Jan - Times Radio - Piennar (Drive)- Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers - Discussion

7 Jan - ITV News - New laws around explicit deepfake pictures (video)

2024

21 Nov - Politico - London Influence: Starmer turns to pod

22 Aug - Times Radio - Jane and Fi (Afternoon) - ‘We can’t let EU’s anti-AI rules drag us down too’ - Discussion

14 August - Newsweek - Prince William Told He'll Need to Take Action on Deep Fakes

13 Aug - The Times - Crypto scammers use deepfake PM and prince

12 Aug - Times Radio - Kait Borsay (Evening Edition) Musk vs. Trump: What should we expect?

8 Aug - Politics without the Boring Bits (Podcast) - The Deepfake Election That Wasn't

2 Aug - Times Radio - Chloe and Calum (Breakfast) - ‘Is Starmer doing enough to curb harmful misinformation?’

31 July - Times Radio - Aasmah and Luke (Breakfast) - ‘Who could be behind Southport misinformation?

11 July - Politico - London Influence: Back to Work

30 June - Dispatches - Can A.I. Steal Your Vote? - 60min Documentary

25 June - Times Radio (The Evening Edition) - How influential is ‘The TikTok Election’?

19 June - The Nightly - Deepfakes are okay in political campaigns says Boris Johnson's election-winning strategist

13 May - ITV News - Dramatic rise in AI 'deepfakes' being used in online scams

10 Apr - Channel 4 News - Could deepfakes change the way you vote?

4 Mar - ABC - Deepfakes pose a serious threat to the integrity of elections — what will it take to protect democracy?

4 Mar - Times Radio (Breakfast) - Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images

13 Feb - The Times - How political deepfakes could decide who wins the next election - Feature

26 Jan - Sky News (IT) - In the UK, over a hundred fake videos of Rishi Sunak discovered online

25 Jan - Business Insider - AI deepfakes threaten to wreak havoc with the world's year of elections

23 Jan - Radio 4 World at One - Deepfakes and democracy - Radio Clip

18 Jan - Bloomberg - AI Isn’t the Only Misinformation Culprit to Worry About

17 Jan - The Economist - Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable

17 Jan - Tech Round - Hundreds of Deepfake Video Ads Are Being Created Around UK Elections

16 Jan - Times Radio (The Evening Edition) - Fenimore Harper Report Finds 100 deepfake video of Rishi Sunak

15 Jan - TechRadar - Hundreds of ads featuring a deep faked Rishi Sunak went up on Facebook - and it's only going to get worse

13 Jan - Engadget - Facebook was inundated with deepfaked ads impersonating UK's Prime Minister

12 Jan - Evening Standard - More than 100 deepfake videos impersonating Rishi Sunak on Facebook amid fears of AI threat to election

12 Jan - The Guardian - Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election


2023

22 May - PRWeek - Comms must ‘fight fire with fire’ over ‘explosion’ in AI misinformation