Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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In the quiet, humid hours of a mid-August evening, the routine world of law enforcement in North Charleston, South Carolina, intersected with a series of decisions that would unravel dramatically over the following days. What began as a minor traffic infraction—a vehicle with an inoperable tag lamp—quickly escalated into a multi-zone, high-speed chase that spanned city limits and ended with a bizarre twist of deception involving a falsified stolen car report. The central figure in this unfolding drama was Joshua Rashad Scott, a 33-year-old man whose initial failure to comply with a simple traffic stop spiraled into a web of…

Paragraph 1: The Modern Fog of Misinformation Let’s face it: living in the digital age often feels like trying to drink from a fire hose. We scroll through our feeds in the morning over coffee, and within sixty seconds, we’ve seen a video of a celebrity endorsing a miracle weight-loss tea, a breaking news alert about a political scandal that turns out to be completely fabricated, and a heartwarming story about a golden retriever that saves a kitten—which, upon closer inspection, originated from a stock footage site. The sheer volume of information is overwhelming, but it’s the quality of that…

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