Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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Dave Portnoy woke up Monday morning and did exactly what Dave Portnoy has built a career doing: he watched the tape, formed a loud opinion, and threw it directly into the middle of the sports internet. The subject was Caleb Williams, the Chicago Bears’ second-year quarterback, and the moment that had everyone talking came late in Sunday’s ugly, grinding 9-3 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Williams went down on a non-contact injury, grabbing at his leg and staying on the turf long enough to make every Bears fan’s stomach drop. In the age of social media, every injury is immediately…

In a world where a confident tweet can outrank a peer-reviewed study, it’s no wonder people are confused about climate change. Misinformation is everywhere: social media ‘experts’ with no scientific training, AI tools that recycle whatever is online as fact, and public figures who sound certain no matter how wrong they are. The question of what the public should believe about net zero has become impossible to answer for many ordinary people. That is exactly why the UK Parliament’s Energy Security and Net Zero Committee has stepped in. In a new report, it calls on the government to take the…

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