Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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Ghana has spent the last two years constructing an impressive legal and institutional fortress to combat the tide of misinformation. With the Cybersecurity Amendment Bill, a pending Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, and various government-led awareness campaigns, the country appears, on paper, to be a regional leader in digital integrity. By 2025, Ghana even ranked top among four West African nations for its capacity to detect falsehoods, boasting a vibrant press corps and sophisticated fact-checking organizations. Yet, this high-level institutional success masks a glaring, uncomfortable truth: the gap between legislative ambition and the reality on the ground is widening. While the…

Google recently launched a new feature for Google Earth that allows users to generate AI-based visualizations directly on top of the platform’s satellite imagery. While the company markets this “create image” tool as a way to visualize urban development or historical changes, it has inadvertently triggered a wave of concern among open-source intelligence experts and disinformation researchers. By integrating its “Nano Banana 2” generative technology, Google has essentially enabled users to turn a once-trusted, objective tool for global verification into a canvas for high-quality, synthetic fabrication. The shift is monumental, effectively transforming a source of empirical truth into a platform…

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