Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.

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There was a time, not so long ago, when people settled arguments at the dinner table by reaching for an encyclopedia, or waited for the evening news to know what was happening in the world. Today, many of us simply ask a chatbot. We type a question into a search bar or an AI assistant and receive a confident, fluent answer in seconds. These conversational tools, powered by large language models, have slipped into our daily routines so quietly that we hardly notice how much they now shape our understanding of reality. The numbers are staggering: Google reports that its…

Paragraph 1 There is a quiet kind of war being fought in Europe today, and it is not fought with tanks or missiles along a visible front line. It is fought through our screens, our social media feeds, our news habits, and the whispered doubts that creep into public life. The weapons are deepfakes, bot networks, manipulated photographs, fabricated scandals, and carefully timed leaks, all designed to make people distrust their governments, argue with their neighbors, and lose faith in the very idea of truth. Against this backdrop, European officials have been working steadily, and often quietly, to build something…

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