Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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It is a peculiar feeling to stand in the lobby of an elegant Lithuanian hotel in November, watching the world’s top disinformation detectives mingle over lukewarm coffee, knowing that the very governments which once funded their vigilance have just pulled the financial rug from beneath their feet. The air in Vilnius carries the crisp bite of a Baltic autumn, a prelude to the long winter ahead, but inside conference hall, the atmosphere is charged with a more immediate and uncomfortable chill—the palpable anxiety of abandonment. As researchers, journalists, and technologists from across Europe and North America swarmed past the registration…

There’s something about October that makes even the most rational people glance over their shoulders. The nights grow longer, the wind rattles the windows, and the air feels full of warning. That same feeling hangs over the modern media industry. It isn’t a haunted house exactly, but every sector seems to hear a bump in the night. Read the news, check the numbers, open your own analytics dashboard, and you can’t shake a question: What is actually out there? Is artificial intelligence a helpful companion or a runaway experiment? Is misinformation an honest mistake or a deliberate weapon? Is the…

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