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 Monday morning in Abuja, inside a hall reserved for the Independent National Electoral Commission’s North-West Zonal Interactive Meeting with staff, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, the commission’s chairman, chose honesty over comfort. The meeting was officially called a readiness assessment for the 2027 general election, but for many in…
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Imagine trying to run a fair and trusted election in one of the most watched corners of American politics. That’s the daily reality for election officials in Maricopa County, Arizona—the fourth-largest county in the country, sitting squarely inside a crucial swing state. Every ballot, every machine, every decision gets magnified under a national spotlight, and with that attention comes a relentless flood of rumors, conspiracy theories, and outright falsehoods. Arizona State University’s Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory, or MODL, was created in 2024 to help election leaders and communities navigate this pressure-cooker environment. It’s a deliberately nonpartisan, inclusive initiative that focuses…
1. There was a time when the truth had a simple authority. If a report appeared in a trusted newspaper or from a respected broadcaster, people generally believed it. That trust has become one of the quiet casualties of our age. We now live inside a storm of information in which a video can show a burning city that never burned, a voice can say words a person never spoke, and a photograph can seem to prove something that never happened. Artificial intelligence has made all of this terrifyingly easy. Alongside this technological flood, fake news has turned into a…
