Weekly Report: Cyber based influence campaigns 21th - 27th July 2025

The week’s reporting illuminates a strategic tension between rapidly advancing disinformation capabilities, often state-aligned, and the slower-moving, fractured responses of democracies and institutions tasked with defending truth. China's AI chatbots echo state lines with near-automated efficiency, while Russia’s hybrid warfare blends digital deception with kinetic force. Western platforms and governments appear either unwilling or ill-equipped to mount an equally agile defense.