Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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It is easy to read today’s headlines about artificial intelligence and misinformation and feel the ground shifting beneath your feet. We are told that chatbots will flood our feeds with falsehoods, that synthetic voices and faces will make seeing indistinguishable from believing, and that democracy itself is on the verge…
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In recent years, the landscape of American elections has been quietly but persistently reshaped by a troubling force: the growing presence of election deniers and the spread of misinformation about how votes are cast, counted, and certified. The American Civil Liberties Union has been tracking this trend closely, most recently in its report titled “The Election Denier’s Playbook, Part Four: Defending Democracy from a New Wave of Threats.” That report pulls back the curtain on some of the most alarming tactics being used today, especially those coming from former President Donald Trump and his allies. Among the most prominent is…
Trust is the quiet currency of public health. It doesn’t show up in press conferences or glossy campaign posters; it lives in the small, everyday moments between a doctor and a patient, a school nurse and a worried parent, a scientist and a skeptical neighbor. And right now, that currency is dangerously depleted. The viewpoint at the heart of this article asks a deceptively simple question: how can public health possibly rebuild trust when misinformation spreads faster than any virus, when political identity has replaced scientific reasoning, and when the media landscape has shattered into millions of separate echo chambers?…
