Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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When we hear the phrase “Russia has declared war,” most of us instinctively picture classic scenes from the twentieth century: tanks rolling across a border, artillery fire, burned-out cities, refugees streaming down roads. But Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski’s recent warning to Europe breaks that old mental frame. In an…
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Imagine scrolling through your social media feed late at night and seeing a familiar logo — BBC, ARD, Deutsche Welle — and a headline that stops you cold. A Berlin mayor is accused of murdering a professional tennis player. A candidate for parliament has a hidden, scandalous past involving secret sex parties. It looks real. It reads real. But none of it is real. This is the deception of Operation Matryoshka, a Russia-linked disinformation campaign that has set its sights on Germany’s upcoming state election in Saxony-Anhalt, scheduled for September 6. The operation has been active since at least September…
The opening weekend of the Eredivisie had left NEC Nijmegen with a bitter taste in their mouths. After all the summer optimism, the preparation, and the hopes of a new season, they had stumbled out of the blocks with a disheartening 1–2 home defeat against Telstar, a result that felt like a false start. In the unforgiving world of Dutch top-flight football, there was no time to dwell. Round two came quickly, and with it an away trip to Tilburg to face a wounded Willem II side desperate to make their own mark. What followed was a performance of real…
