Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Imagine a researcher who has spent years tracking foreign influence campaigns, building databases of suspicious accounts, testifying before parliaments, and warning the public about the dangers of manipulated information. For most of the last decade, that person would have been focused on Moscow, Beijing, or Tehran. But this week, in…
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The South African government has lamented the dangerous disinformation that has attached itself to a recent Constitutional Court judgment on asylum seekers, and the lament is understandable because the ruling was never meant to be a banner for fear. According to reports carried by SABC News, officials have watched with growing frustration as distorted interpretations of the judgment spread through social media, popular messaging groups and ordinary conversations, turning a careful legal decision into something that sounds frightening and divisive. The judgment was about people who have fled their own countries because of persecution, violence and the kind of suffering…
Who knew that something as seemingly bland as an “interlocal service agreement” could stir up such a war of words? But that’s exactly what happened after a Las Vegas City Council meeting in mid-September, when council members decided to reopen a long-standing deal with Clark County—a deal that determines who pays for what in the northwest valley, a crazy quilt of neighborhoods where city and county lines twist around each other like old fence rows. The council’s message was blunt: the current arrangement is unfair to the people they represent. “The current version of the interlocal agreement does not serve…
