Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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As the countdown to Kenya’s next general election intensifies, a palpable tension hangs over the nation’s media landscape. It is not merely the usual political jostling or the adrenaline of campaign trails that has journalists on edge, but a far more insidious and technically sophisticated adversary: the deepfake, the manipulated…
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The Digital Battlefield: Facebook’s Failure to Stop Election Disinformation in Brazil In a stark demonstration of the vulnerabilities plaguing modern digital democracy, Amnesty International has uncovered alarming weaknesses in Facebook’s content moderation systems ahead of Brazil’s presidential election. Through a carefully designed experiment, the human rights organization revealed that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, accepted more than half of the election-related disinformation ads submitted for review, raising serious questions about the platform’s commitment to protecting democratic processes. The findings paint a troubling picture of a social media giant that appears unable or unwilling to effectively police the very content that could…
Paragraph 1: The Crucible of Mongbwalu In the tormented landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern frontier, the earth gives up its riches only at the cost of human suffering. In the dusty, frantic corridors of Mongbwalu, a high-traffic gold mining hub in Ituri province, the rhythm of life and death is dictated less by the clock and more by the glint of precious metal and the shadow of viral death. It is here, amid the churning of excavators and the endless trek of porters hauling rock, that the current Ebola outbreak is believed to have found its genesis—a…
