Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Misinformation has become one of the defining paradoxes of the digital age: humanity has never had more information at its fingertips, and yet we have rarely felt so uncertain about what is true. In a sweeping study published in Science, Allen, Watts, and Rand quantified the impact of misinformation and…
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The news is chilling, not because it is surprising, but because it feels like a glimpse into a future we were warned about and somehow failed to prepare for. According to a report covered by The New Times, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been accused of using Claude, the artificial intelligence assistant developed by Anthropic, to generate fake news articles. These were not harmless parodies or clumsy internet trolling. They were carefully manufactured pieces of propaganda, designed to look like real journalism, with real headlines, real bylines, and real-world consequences. The report arrives against a backdrop of one of…
On Saturday, September 13th, 2026, just before ten o’clock in the evening, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary pulled over a vehicle in the centre city of St. John’s. At first glance, it must have looked like any other routine traffic stop—a car moving through the quiet streets, the pulse of the weekend in the air, and two people inside who probably never expected to be there. But when an officer approached and asked the driver for his name, something began to unravel. The man behind the wheel, 43 years old, gave a name that was not his own. He was also…
