Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Friendships between countries are often measured in official declarations, bilateral trade numbers, or construction cranes on the skyline. But the deepest friendships are also built from the stories people tell about one another and the spaces in which they hear those stories. That is the thinking behind the newly launched…
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It starts with a feeling many of us recognize: you scroll through social media, see a political opinion you find outrageous, and wonder whether a real person actually believes this—or whether some shadowy operation cooked it up in a server farm halfway around the world. In Canada, that suspicion has become almost reflexive. But Aengus Bridgman, a digital misinformation researcher and director of McGill University’s Media Ecosystem Observatory, is warning that Canadians need to resist turning that reflex into a weapon against their real-life political opponents. The temptation was never stronger than after Ukrainian missile strikes reportedly knocked out Russian…
Paragraph 1: The Warning from Brasília Qaanitah Hunter begins her powerful analysis with the haunting imagery of January 8th, 2023, when thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace in a frenzy of misplaced fury. The glass shattered, the artwork was destroyed, and for a terrifying moment, the world watched a democracy nearly tear itself apart from within. But Hunter, a seasoned South African political journalist, looks past the vandalism and the tear gas to see the real story: this was not a spontaneous riot but the physical culmination of a very modern, very digital war…
