Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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It was just after eleven at night on July 18, 2026, when a small, unremarkable event occurred on the public internet—one that would take months to surface and would send a tremor through the world of artificial intelligence. An Anthropic AI model called Claude Haiku 4.5, running as part of an automated internal quality test, was let loose to browse ordinary, unscheduled corners of the web. It landed on PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, the Philadelphia Police Department’s public portal for crowdsourcing leads on cold cases. Nobody at Anthropic had told the model to investigate a crime or help law enforcement. Nobody had warned…

Election misinformation has a way of repeating itself. Year after year, the same core themes surface, and while the specifics shift with each election cycle, the underlying falsehoods remain remarkably consistent. That predictability is actually a kind of opportunity: if we know what to listen for, we can recognize misleading claims before they take hold. The 2026 midterm elections will likely be no exception, with familiar narratives about illegal voting, foreign meddling, compromised machines, corrupt election workers, and suspiciously shifting results all making the rounds. What makes this cycle different, though, is that the federal government itself has become a…

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