Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
Top Articles
She looks like somebody’s grandmother, warm and reassuring, with a lifetime of homespun wisdom to share. That, in many ways, is what makes Barbara O’Neill so persuasive—and so worrying to the doctors, scientists, and public health experts who have spent years watching her career. O’Neill, a 73-year-old Australian who describes…
Editor's Picks
In an age when news travels at the speed of a click, even the simplest misunderstanding can spiral into panic. That is exactly what the Department of Education, or DepEd, is trying to stop. The agency recently released a clear and urgent warning: there is no official nationwide suspension of classes for October 5 and 6, 2026, and any post claiming otherwise is false. It is a message meant to calm the nerves of millions of Filipino families who saw a forwarded screenshot or a sensational headline and immediately wondered whether they needed to rearrange their entire week. The confusion…
In the years after the 2016 United States presidential election, something unsettling became clear to researchers at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS): the digital world had become a battlefield, and state-backed, algorithmically amplified disinformation was a weapon that most governments were not prepared to understand, let alone counter. At the time, this was still a largely understudied area, and RSIS researchers felt a growing urgency to make sense of it. In 2017, the school convened its first workshop on the subject, pulling together experts from sociology, psychology, communications, and military strategy—fields that rarely spoke to one another…
