Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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On a quiet Thursday morning, with the calendar sitting exactly 40 days before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, an important ritual of democracy quietly began across Genesee County and Michigan. Mail-in ballots started going out to voters, marking what Genesee County Clerk and Register of Deeds Domonique Clemons called “the…
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Medical misinformation is not just a problem of ignorance; it is a deeply human issue. It lives in the spaces where we are most vulnerable: when we are afraid, when we are hoping for a cure, when we are uncertain about what tomorrow will bring. It often arrives dressed in the language of science, with confident phrases like “studies show” or “doctors don’t want you to know this,” and it speaks directly to our desire to protect ourselves and the people we love. Unlike a simple gap in knowledge, misinformation is active and persuasive. It doesn’t just fail to inform;…
It was a crisp late-September morning in Moscow, and the city was hosting a gathering that felt less like a routine conference and more like a kind of digital battlefield briefing. The event, called “Dialogue about Fakes 4.0,” had drawn journalists, media executives, and fact-checkers from around the world, all of them wrestling with a problem that has come to define our age: the relentless, swirling tide of fake news and misinformation. Among those taking the stage was Mohammad Al-Mannae, the acting director general of the Kuwait News Agency, better known by its acronym KUNA. He wasn’t there to deliver…
