Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Imagine scrolling through your social media feed and seeing a short, dramatic clip. The camera swoops through a parking lot, chasing two women who are running between cars. There’s music, maybe a caption in bold letters, and the implication is clear: this is police surveillance, a drone operated by law…
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Lisa Nandy’s decision to step away from X is not the everyday story of overworked politicians taking a “digital detox”. It is a public, symbolic act that cuts to the heart of how Britain governs itself in the age of algorithmic chaos. The Culture, Media and Sport Secretary made the announcement on a platform she had once used with the confidence of a public-spirited schoolma’am, capturing the mood of the internet with a wry, northern English humour. In her final post, she wrote: “I’ve decided to leave this platform and my department will too. A platform originally designed for free…
For anyone who has watched a rumor mushroom into a family group chat argument, or seen a grainy video falsely labeled as current events race across a country’s timeline, the news out of Meta this week felt like a quiet shift in the tectonic plates of the internet. The company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads announced it is testing a system called Community Notes in 16 Latin American countries, a move that would effectively replace professional fact-checking with crowdsourced user reviews. As of now, the rollout is still a trial, and for a little while longer, accredited newsrooms and…
