We are only at the beginning of the potential use of “deepfakes” as a weapon of “reputational destruction”, the latest addition to a fast growing digital arsenal.  Deefakes are videos in which spoken words are changed to make it look like someone has said something they never did. Or faces superimposed to show a person …

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When Donald Trump yesterday pronounced the words “We are under siege” in front of the Faith & Freedom Coalition shortly after former FBI’s Director James Comey ended his public testimony on the Hill, crisis management experts must have jumped in their seats. Was the President expressing a psychological state of mind well know to practitioners? …

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Since April 3rd the Mossack Fonseca affair, also known as Panama Papers, is keeping media busy worldwide. A number of crisis management experts have offered their views on the strategy adopted by the Law Firm in an effort to limit the damage or to offer their suggestions on how the reputation crisis should be managed. ENISA, (European Union Agency for Network and …

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Over the past weeks a number of crisis communications experts have offered their views on Lufthansa’s handling of the Germanwings crash on March 24th which claimed the lives of 150 passengers and crew in the French Alps. Many have praised Lufthansa and its CEO Carsten Spohr, others have been more critical. Here are 7 key facts about crisis management and crisis …

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