Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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On a recent morning in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, a room filled with imams, pastors, women’s leaders, and traditional elders gathered not for a religious ceremony, but for something just as important: protecting the health of mothers and children. The occasion was a one-day orientation programme on the…
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Generative artificial intelligence has become a double-edged sword for the information ecosystem. The same technology that can produce millions of polished, believable false headlines in minutes can also, according to new research, teach people to resist them. That is the central paradox explored by Mohammad S. Najjar and Murtaza Nasir in a study published in Information Systems Frontiers. The researchers built a conversational AI agent named Alex and asked a deceptively simple question: could a brief, natural chat with an AI system make people less vulnerable to AI-generated fake news? Their answer, backed by a carefully controlled experiment with 542…
In the quiet, wooded outskirts of Plumsted, where the roads twist through dense pine and scrub and the nearest sounds are usually wind and birds, an ordinary afternoon was shattered on October 15 by a frantic 911 call. A woman was injured, burned, in distress near Hawkin and Success Roads. Emergency medical personnel and police arrived around 1:36 p.m. to find 33-year-old Chelsea Villano in a condition that spoke of pain and chaos — burns on her body, fear in her voice, and a story she was ready to tell. She was rushed from the scene, past the trees and…
