Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Picture this: you’re a tired, slightly anxious new parent, scrolling through Facebook in the quiet hours of the evening. You love your baby more than anything, and you want to make the right choices, but the constant stream of opinions about vaccines can feel overwhelming. Suddenly a message appears on…
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On a bright, expectant morning in Abuja, the kind of morning when the city’s usual chaos hums with possibility, a group of communicators, security officials, and concerned citizens gathered not for a celebration, but for a wake-up call. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) had chosen this public roadshow, organized by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), to deliver a message that cut through the noise of daily life: misinformation is not a harmless digital pastime. It is a weapon. It can destabilize communities, inflame tensions, and put innocent lives at risk. The Commandant of the NSCDC…
It starts, as so many modern sports stories do, not at a stadium but on a screen, with a video that seems too ridiculous to be true. The clip currently making its way around the internet shows Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus, rendered through artificial intelligence, sitting beside the Webb Ellis Cup and pouring his heart out to it in song. The tune is Vanessa Carlton’s early-2000s piano pop anthem “A Thousand Miles,” and the scene is a direct spoof of a beloved moment from the comedy White Chicks—the one where Terry Crews, driving in a convertible, bobs his head and…
