Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
Top Articles
Every few months, another alarming video lands in social media feeds, and this time it’s about mammograms. A woman with a large following and a well-lit kitchen stares into the camera and says she’s done her own research. Mammograms, she claims, are toxic. The radiation is dangerous, the compression spreads…
Editor's Picks
For the past six years, the children and staff of Jupiter Street Primary School in Ocean View have gone to school without something most of us never think about: a fence. A school without a secure perimeter is like a home without walls, a place where safety is always just out of reach. The original fence was stolen in two stages, first in December 2019, and then the rest during the Covid-19 lockdown. By July 2020, the school grounds were completely exposed. For nearly six years, anyone could walk onto the property. Teachers tried to teach while strangers moved behind…
The Africa Facts Network has strongly condemned the arrest and detention of six journalists working with the Egyptian fact-checking platform Matsda2sh, demanding their immediate release and calling for a thorough investigation into allegations that they were tortured while in custody. The journalists—Abdullah Qadry, Mohammed Ashraf Abu Emeira, Islam Barakat, Omar Helal, Mohammed Mahmoud and Mohammed Adel—were detained during security raids on September 28 and 29, according to the network and media rights organizations. The raids did not happen at an office or a newsroom; they happened at the journalists’ own homes, in the private spaces where they lived with their…
