Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.

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Fifty years is a long time to wait, and New York Knicks fans have always understood that better than almost anyone. They endured blown leads, bizarre coaching decisions, lottery disappointments, and so many near misses that hope itself sometimes felt like a cruel joke. When the Knicks finally won their first NBA championship since 1973, the city didn’t just celebrate. It exhaled. For one beautiful moment, all the pain of the past was replaced by pure, unfiltered joy. Players hugged, fans poured into the streets, and Madison Square Garden felt like the center of the universe. But as every champion…

Paragraph 1 On a brisk October morning in Sofia, a room full of people who spend their working lives worrying about the truth gathered at the GATE Institute, and for a few hours, they did something almost radical: they shared what they had learned. This was the first annual expert workshop, modestly titled “From Analysis to Action,” and it was organized by BROD, one of fifteen hubs in the European Digital Media Observatory network. The mood was not one of panic, but of quiet, determined urgency. Bulgaria, after all, is a country where the information environment is under constant, grinding…

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