Capping off 2025 with new Gen Z report, big team announcement – The Nerve

We have a couple of big announcements at The Nerve, Rappler’s data forensics arm, to cap the year.

This December, we released our latest report aimed at decoding Gen Z and exploring how these digital natives navigate media, work, money, brands, and relationships. For all those looking to understand Gen Zs — or perhaps if you’re a Gen Z looking for insight into your generation’s behavior — we invite you to download the report here.

For this report, we ran online surveys and used Synth, The Nerve’s AI-powered online interview platform, to get key insights straight from Filipino Gen Zs. This study also used Probe, our forensic solutions for narrative and content analysis of online articles and social media posts, to complement the Synth results.

In other news, we’re thrilled to announce that Professor Julie Posetti is joining The Nerve as director of The Information Integrity Initiative (III). The III seeks to anchor action-oriented research, policy work, and product development at the intersection of disinformation, freedom of expression, gender, and public interest media, and Posetti will spearhead efforts to further the cause.

The III’s first major release is called “Tipping Point: The chilling escalation of violence against women in the public sphere.” It showed that 70% of surveyed women have experienced online violence in the course of their work, and that 41% of respondents reported offline harm linked to online abuse.

The report was produced by the EU-UN Women’s ACT to End Violence against Women program in partnership with researchers from The Nerve, City St. George’s University, and the International Center for Journalists, in collaboration with UNESCO. You can download the free report on The Nerve’s website now.

As we end the year, we’d like to thank those of you reading and following The Nerve’s reports or attending our masterclasses. It warms our hearts to know we’re making an impact, and as we prepare for another year, we hope to see more people gaining insights and knowledge from our work.

Here are the other reports we published this year, for those catching up on reading over the holidays:

• Southport Riot: Inside the UK’s Anti-Immigrant Disinformation Ecosystem
• [DECODED] Nerve study finds demand for EQ, more personal stories from parenting influencers

See you again next year! – Rappler.com

The Nerve is a data forensics company that enables changemakers to navigate real-world trends and issues through narrative and network investigations. Taking the best of human and machine, we enable partners to unlock powerful insights that shape informed decisions. Composed of a team of data scientists, strategists, award-winning storytellers, and designers, the company is on a mission to deliver data with real-world impact.