Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Imagine waking up in Tallinn on a grey autumn morning, making coffee, scrolling through the news, and discovering that Moscow’s most influential state media outlets are telling millions of people that your small country is secretly helping Ukraine launch drone attacks against Russia. For a resident of Estonia, this is…
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Do you remember the moment in 2018 when the Cambridge Analytica scandal exploded into public consciousness? For many of us, it was the first time we truly understood how easily our personal information could be weaponized. The story had actually been unfolding since around 2014, when Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy working for Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, improperly accessed and sold data belonging to Facebook users in order to target them for political advertising. The figures were staggering: more than 87 million users had their personal data harvested, including over 1.1 million Filipinos. Worse still, the stolen information…
On a Tuesday morning, with the clock running down on one of the most closely watched races in Texas, a video appeared on social media that seemed designed to change everything. It showed a young man sitting in front of a camera, his face calm, his voice flat, describing an experience that no one would invent. He said he had been sexually assaulted by his middle school teacher. Then he named the teacher: James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for a coveted Senate seat in Texas, the man fighting to unseat Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in a race that polls…
