Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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For weeks, a story raced across the internet with the kind of irresistible clarity that modern media consumers have come to crave: Ukraine’s audacious drone strikes on Russian tech giant Yandex had not only disrupted ordinary internet services, but had secretly shredded the very digital arteries powering pro-Russian bot armies…
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The unmistakable, grainy warmth of a car radio on a weekday afternoon provided the unlikely backdrop for one of the most surreal tech stories of the season. KOA 850 AM & 94.1 FM had brought in ABC tech reporter Mike Dobuski to make sense of a news item that straddled the line between absurdist comedy and stark digital warning. The segment began with the hosts exchanging baffled glances, because the story Dobuski was about to unpack sounded less like reality and more like a rejected plot from a sci-fi B-movie. It centered on Anthropic’s Claude AI, a sophisticated chatbot that…
There are moments in public life when a leader who has spent decades in the sun suddenly finds himself standing in a shadow he never expected. For Siddaramaiah, the former Chief Minister of Karnataka and one of the most recognizable faces of the Congress party in the state, that shadow arrived not in the form of a political rival or a tough election battle, but as a video circulating quietly through the dark corridors of social media. The video, which he says connects him to an alleged sting operation, has provoked not just anger but a deep sense of betrayal.…
