Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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The digital landscape has become a double-edged sword, providing a voice to everyone while simultaneously creating breeding grounds for coordinated misinformation. A recent three-month investigation by DFRAC into the social media activity of Deepak Sharma, a self-styled “journalist” and founder of the platform Aapka Bharat, offers a somber look at…
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The internet has become a double-edged sword, and recently, the Maharashtra Cyber Police pulled back the curtain on a particularly dangerous side of it. During a period of intense public discourse surrounding the NEET examination controversies and the subsequent nationwide protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a massive, orchestrated disinformation campaign was unleashed. What initially appeared to be organic public outcry was, in reality, a calculated effort to manipulate sentiment and destabilize social order. By leveraging advanced technology, bad actors sought to turn the digital space into a battlefield, proving that the threat of foreign-led digital propaganda isn’t…
On July 26, Netflix dropped Instadocs: The Prediction Games, a new documentary aimed at decoding the rapidly expanding and often misunderstood world of prediction markets. By sitting down with heavy hitters like Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) official Michael Selig, the production sought to provide an insider’s look at the financial platforms where people bet on real-world outcomes. While the documentary promised to transport viewers to the “red hot center of betting fever,” the reality behind the scenes has been far less cinematic and considerably more litigious. Instead of helping define…
