Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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In the age of algorithms, information no longer moves in straight lines from source to reader; it lurches, multiplies, and mutates as it travels through feeds, shares, and recommendations. Falsehoods can spread like a virus, and the louder they echo, the more familiar they feel. In such a landscape, the…
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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,…
On a crisp morning in Des Moines, a small but determined group of state officials, investigators, and longtime watchdogs gathered for the third meeting of Iowa’s newly formed Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task Force. The room was filled with the quiet tension of people who know that behind every spreadsheet and statistic there is a real person—a grandmother in a nursing home, a disabled veteran relying on home health care, a family struggling to keep a loved one safe. Jeremy Ingram, the director of Iowa’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, stood before the group and delivered an update that was both encouraging…
