Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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In a bright, busy conference room in Nairobi, in the final stretch of September, a group of unlikely allies came together with a shared and urgent purpose. They were diplomats, policy experts, civil society activists, technology specialists, and community leaders. They came from countries across the Horn of Africa, a…
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There is something deeply unsettling about watching the tools of democracy get turned against democracy itself. Public records laws were never supposed to be controversial. They were built on a simple, beautiful idea: that citizens should be able to see what their government is doing, that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that transparency keeps power honest. But as a recent CalMatters investigation from October 8, 2026, makes painfully clear, these same tools are now being weaponized by election deniers who are using public records requests not to find truth, but to manufacture suspicion. The investigation, titled “How election deniers…
