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 rolling, forested hills of southeastern Kentucky, Clay County is the kind of place where neighbors know each other’s names, where church suppers are a lifeline, and where news travels through a living network of front porches and livestock auctions. For its roughly twenty-thousand residents, the rhythm of life…
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Poland’s constitutional crisis is not simply a courtroom drama or a clash between political parties. It is a human story about what happens when institutions meant to hold a country together become weapons in a struggle for power, and when the story people tell about that struggle matters more than the facts on the ground. At its core, the crisis is a warning about oversimplification. Domestic and international actors have reduced a deeply tangled situation to a simple story of good versus evil, and in doing so they have made compromise almost impossible. In such an environment, online extremism and…
The story begins with a familiar modern scene: a piece of enormous news breaks, people reach for their phones, and social media fills the gap before anyone has had time to verify what is real. According to the article, just hours after news spread online that Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s ousted president, had been arrested by U.S. forces, feeds were flooded with photographs that appeared to show him in handcuffs, escorted by drug enforcement agents, or surrounded by soldiers on a military aircraft. The images looked convincing enough to travel quickly, but they were fake—likely produced with artificial intelligence tools. Experts…
