Finally. A Visibility Window

Something shifted.

Volunteers, businesses, government officials, retired military people, all of them have been pushing this issue with us at Get Fact / Laura, all because they are worried about how fast false content moves online and what it is doing to Canada and to liberal democracies everywhere.

The conversation has finally arrived in the rooms where it always belonged. Mainstream media is starting to take notice. CTV did this piece. Link

CBC News investigated channels pumping out amplified, and fake, pieces about Alberta’s separatist movement. Actually, CBC’s reporting did the work the platforms should be doing, or we should demand of them.

A small victory in one battle. Nowhere near winning a war.

CTV’s coverage reached a respectable Canadian audience, no doubt. The content they wrote about reached 40+ mln.

Still. We mark what is happening.

The work people in this corner have been doing for years, verifying, checking, prebunking, is finally registering as public-interest. So let’s hope more and more non-experts can hold the conversation and there is shift in literacy.

But it is hardly over.

The reason any of this is visible at all is because of where it has been happening. Public posts, feeds, and reach. Let’s call it the Visibility Window. It is the gift of the social-media era, even when it does not feel like one.

It will not last.

As AI moves from chatbots to copilots to agents acting on our behalf, booking, buying, summarizing, deciding, more of the consequential information traffic will happen agent to agent and computer to computer. There will not be a public feed.

Security researchers are already calling agent-to-agent communication the next big visibility gap. As APIs move to the "Agentic Action Layer," there is a new structure to how AI agents all connect and speak to one another.

The vast majority of this kind of ‘traffic’ is not visible to the users. Link. Most agents in production today operate without any monitoring at all. This is a remarkable consideration just as the mainstream finally caught up to the visible kind.

So let us mark the win. The conversation has arrived and the vocabulary is spreading but the next front is already being built. And most of it will not happen on a feed any of us can see.

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