Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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On a late September day, Andriy Kovalenko made an announcement that was both professional and profoundly personal. After three years at the helm of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, a body operating under the National Security and Defense Council, he was stepping down. The news arrived in a characteristically understated…
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Imagine waking up to a message in the family WhatsApp group. Your cousin has shared a photo of burning buildings in Tel Aviv, with a caption saying the government is hiding the true scale of destruction after an Iranian strike. Your stomach drops. You feel anger, fear, helplessness. You share it too. But the photo was not taken by a journalist or a satellite. It was generated by an artificial intelligence tool, in flawless Hebrew, in a matter of seconds, by a network whose entire purpose is to make Israelis feel exactly that way. This is the new front line…
Every day, millions of people wake up to a flood of messages, headlines, images, and videos that arrive through their phones before there is time to ask a simple question: is this true? In a year as important as 2024, when Mexicans are preparing to make decisions that will shape the next six years of their country, that question becomes urgent. It was with this sense of urgency that Channel 44, the public broadcaster of the Universidad de Guadalajara, began its thirteenth anniversary celebrations, not with a party, but with a conversation about one of the most serious problems of…
