Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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At the heart of so much anti-trans activism is a simple trick: take a complex human reality, reduce it to a scary-sounding statistic, and let fear do the rest. The Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, or CWALAC, recently released what it called a study claiming that trans women…
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I spent years investigating how Russian intelligence and its online proxies have waged a secret war against American democracy, and I wrote a book to expose it. The book, How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America, is about the shadowy campaigns of disinformation and covert influence that Moscow has run for a decade, many of them designed to help Donald Trump and the Republican Party. I ended the book with a warning: Russia would almost certainly attack the midterm elections to boost Trump and the GOP. Within days of publication, media outlets were already reporting…
Imagine waking up on a Sunday to the news that armed police had sealed off roads near RAF Fairford, a quiet corner of the Gloucestershire countryside that most people only associate with military aircraft or the occasional airshow. Five men had been arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and terrorism after three vans were found close to the base, which is used by the US Air Force. Residents were being evacuated from their homes. It was the kind of story that breaks through the noise, makes people check their phones twice, and sparks questions: What happened? Who did this? Are…
