Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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Paragraph 1 It begins as a whisper, a small voice from the other side of the kitchen table, but the words land like thunder: “Mom, am I South African?” My son, a foundation phase child with a heart full of questions and a mind open to the world, caught me completely off guard. We live in a home where curiosity is celebrated, where a child can ask anything without being shooed away with a dismissive “go play.” We’ve always encouraged him to probe, to wonder, to ask the big questions that adults often file away for later. But this particular…

Here is a humanized, 2,000-word summary of the fact-check report, organized into six paragraphs. — The story begins with a familiar pattern in India’s fast-moving digital political landscape: an arrest, a release, and then, within hours, a flood of distorted claims designed to shape public perception. On October 10, three leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)—Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, and Ashutosh Ranka—were placed under preventive detention by the Delhi Police. They were produced before a Special Executive Magistrate court in Delhi Cantonment the next day, October 11, and were released after furnishing a bond. What should have been a…

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