Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Inside a crowded Moscow conference hall, the air hummed with a dozen languages and the quiet click of laptops and translation earpieces. Around the long tables and standing-room-only corners, more than two thousand fact-checkers from eighty countries had come together with a shared, urgent mission: to make sense of a…
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There is a particular kind of danger that does not arrive with sirens or explosions, but rather in the quiet spread of a lie, a manipulated image, a forged article, or a bot-filled comment section. That was the danger the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, chose to place at the centre of his first address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Speaking to world leaders, he warned that recent years had seen “an industrial-scale assault by hostile actors on the information environment” in the UK and many of its allies. It was a powerful…
It was an ordinary late-September afternoon in the village of Glen Arbor, a place known for its shoreline beauty and quiet, close-knit charm. Then, at 2:41 p.m. on September 23, the calm was shattered by a telephone call that would send a wave of fear through the community. The caller described what sounded like a nightmare: a dispute in a commercial parking lot that had escalated into gunfire, leaving an eight-year-old girl shot in the neck. For the first responders who heard those words, there was no hesitation and no room for doubt. They immediately mobilized as if every detail…
