The Governance of Augmented Disinformation Between the Digital Services Act and the AI Act

1. Misinformation and the problem with AI – 2. The solution with AI? – 3. The risks of “augmented disinformation” – 4. Augmented disinformation in the Digital Services Act – 4.1. Disinformation content as “illegal content” – 4.2. Automated moderation of disinformation content – 4.3. Disinformation and systemic risks – 4.4. Codes of conduct and disinformation – 5. Augmented disinformation in the AI Act – 5.1. Prohibited manipulation and disinformation – 5.2. Disinformation in systems posing a high risk to electoral infuence – 5.3. Transparency and disinformation obligations – 5.4. General-purpose AI models: disinformation as a systemic risk – 6. Conclusions.