The rapid proliferation of AI-mediated speech—spanning AI-generated, algorithmically curated, and automatically moderated content—is fundamentally reshaping the global information order. While offering benefits, AI applications simultaneously present profound and novel challenges to information integrity, contributing to a crisis of trust in today's information environment. Regulatory frameworks and governance models, largely designed for a pre-generative AI world, are struggling to keep pace.

This special issue calls for papers addressing the unique challenges associated with  AI, especially generative AI. It also seeks to move beyond a reactive analysis of harms and instead to explore innovative, alternative, cooperative, and forward-looking approaches to governing AI-mediated content. Papers providing a comparative perspective and that shift the analytical focus beyond the US and the EU are welcome, including analysis of the role of geopolitics in shaping regulatory interventions. The aim is to foster a multidisciplinary research agenda that generates tangible policy insight.

We invite submissions (including from early career researchers) that address, but are not limited to, the following thematic areas:

• The Challenge Landscape: Analysing unique challenges posed by AI-generated content and the strengths and weaknesses of AI tools for content moderation
• Incentivizing Reliable Information: Exploring innovative or alternative approaches to technology and institutional design and the affordances of AI tools to incentivise reliable and accurate information
• Implementation and Coordination: Assessing capabilities for joined-up implementation of interventions aimed at enhancing the "information integrity" of AI-mediated speech

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be written in accessible language for a global readership that encompasses policymakers, practitioners, professionals and academics. All submissions will be double blind peer reviewed. Once accepted, articles will be published open access in the journal. 

All submissions should be made through the journal’s online peer review system. Authors should consult the journal’s Author Instructions prior to submission. Research papers should not exceed 8,000 words and policy papers should not exceed 4,000 words, including references. The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2026.

All authors will be required to declare any funding and/or competing interests upon submission. See the journal’s Publishing Ethics guidelines for more information.  

Contacts

Guest Editors: 

• Prof. Robin Mansell, FAcSS, FBA, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Prof. Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford
• Dr. Jufang Wang, Co-director at Oxford Global Society

Questions regarding peer review can be sent to the journal inbox at cfa@cambridge.org.