Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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News24’s investigation into the Department of Correctional Services is not another dry audit story. It is a story about how an institution built to hold people accountable spent years refusing to be accountable itself. The title alone says it: “False, altered or not authentic.” Those are not adjectives a citizen…
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In the days after a violent road rage encounter on Preston Highway in Louisville began circulating online, the raw anger of the video collided with a far messier human truth: what we see in a clip is rarely the whole story. The footage, recorded on September 30 near the ramp off Interstate 65, appeared to show a man striking a woman, and it spread quickly across social media, provoking outrage and demands for justice. In that heated atmosphere, Louisville Metro Councilwoman Tammy Hawkins made a serious mistake. She shared the name and photo of a man, posting on Facebook that…
Imagine scrolling through Facebook on a quiet evening and coming across a post that makes your blood boil. A news page claims the Prime Minister has just called a well-known TV presenter an “insult to Australian values.” You feel the injustice, the outrage, and before you even think to question it, you share it with your friends, maybe add an angry comment. But here’s the hard truth: the entire story is fabricated, the quote was never spoken, and the page that published it is not run by Australian journalists, nor even by anyone in Australia. It is managed by people…
