Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Paragraph 1: Leaving the Physical and Entering the Silica The exhibition performs a subtle magic trick when you finally reach its mid-section. You have just spent the better part of an hour navigating the dusty, beautifully preserved architecture of the analog world—the thick-wooded map chests, the ornate printing press, the…
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It can start quietly enough: a patient pulls out a phone during an appointment and says, “I just want to ask you about this,” and the screen shows a video with millions of views, telling people that a common medication is dangerous or that some untested supplement is a cure. Or it can start around a dinner table, when a well-meaning relative shares a frightening story about vaccines that they heard from a friend, and suddenly a routine visit becomes a difficult conversation. More and more, physicians say these moments are not occasional interruptions to their work—they are becoming central…
It is hard to imagine a grief more unbearable than the one Patrick Clancy has been forced to carry. In January 2023, in the quiet Massachusetts town of Duxbury, his world collapsed when his three young children—Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan—were killed inside their own home. The person accused of taking their lives was his wife, Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse who, according to prosecutors, admitted to strangling each child with an exercise band before throwing herself from a second-story window. The details were so shocking that they rippled far beyond the small community, drawing national…
