Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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People love to hate CNN, but almost no one wants to fact-check that hatred. Snopes has spent years doing exactly that, and the result is a strange collection of misleading charts, doctored videos, genuine admissions, and half-baked conspiracies. In this summary, we’ll walk through a dozen of the claims we’ve…
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In a world where the truth is already under relentless assault, a new and particularly insidious attack has targeted one of Ukraine’s most trusted independent media voices. The editorial team at NV, the well-known Ukrainian news outlet operating through NV.ua, has been forced to issue an urgent and unequivocal warning: the website nvukraine.com is not theirs. It is a malicious mirror, a carefully constructed imitation designed to deceive. On that fake domain, unknown actors copied the look, layout, and branding of the real NV.ua website and published a fabricated story alleging “searches of a former defense procurement chief.” The story,…
On a cool Tuesday morning in Moscow, something significant was taking shape inside the National Centre Russia. Representatives from news agencies across Asia and the Pacific had gathered under the banner of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies, or OANA, for an international forum called Dialogue About Fakes 4.0. There was no mood of celebration in the hall, only a sense of quiet urgency. The information landscape, they all agreed, has become a battlefield. Disinformation, increasingly powered by artificial intelligence, is spreading faster, looking more believable, and hitting harder than ever before. The old instincts of journalism — verify, check,…
