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 Monday morning in Abuja, the Independent National Electoral Commission brought together its Public Affairs Officers for a conversation that felt less like a routine workshop and more like a call to arms. With the 2027 general elections on the horizon, INEC asked these communicators to do something harder…
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Some bands make music to distract you from the real world, and then there are bands that make you feel like the real world is finally screaming along with you. Hard Feelings were born in Connecticut in 2020, a year that made plenty of people feel like they were falling apart. Their sound grew out of that uncertainty, that strange mix of anger and restlessness that comes when life refuses to follow the plan. The pandemic stripped away routines, closed rooms, and forced everyone to sit with their own thoughts; from that silence, this band built something loud. They have…
Group chats can be messy, chaotic, and full of half-baked hot takes. But they might also be one of the better tools we have against fake news. Every internet user knows that strange feeling of scrolling past a headline that seems just slightly off, a lingering sense that something is wrong even if you can’t immediately explain why. Usually, we keep scrolling. We might mentally file it away or maybe share it on a whim. A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that the missing step might be other people. Researchers found that college students who talked…
