Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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In November 2018, the United States military did something quietly extraordinary: it cut off the internet access of a Russian company that had been trying to meddle in the American midterm elections. That company, the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, had become infamous for its role in a disinformation…
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Marika Hackman has never been the kind of artist who waits for permission. She writes, produces, arranges, and plays nearly everything herself, and her new album finds her even more deeply in control of her own vision. False Dogs, her fifth studio album, is due out February 19 via Chrysalis Records, and it follows last year’s Big Sigh with a quiet but confident momentum. The announcement alone feels like an event: Hackman made the record in her East London studio, then took it to a converted chapel on the Kent coast, and the result sounds like a world built from…
There’s something fitting about Steven Brill taking the stage in Buffalo next week to talk about truth and lies online. He’s spent his career moving between journalism, business, and best-selling books, and for the past several years he’s been doing something that feels increasingly essential: trying to sort the reliable from the reckless in a digital world that seems to reward the reckless. Brill is co-CEO of NewsGuard, a company that reviews and rates the credibility of news and information websites. The scale of that job is almost hard to grasp. NewsGuard has audited roughly 36,000 websites and found only…
