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 late at night and seeing a video of Sarah Jessica Parker looking straight into the camera, her face serious, her voice unmistakable. She says that when she hears about Democrats, she immediately thinks of “corrupt Nazi whores,” and then she tells you that…
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1. On a Wednesday in early September, a lawyer stood before the New Mexico Supreme Court not as an advocate arguing a brilliant legal theory, but as a man explaining how he had placed his trust in the wrong place. Stephen Aarons, a Santa Fe attorney handling a murder appeal, had submitted a brief to the court that he believed was a faithful summary of trial proceedings. Instead, the document was built in part on inventions—testimony from witnesses who never existed, descriptions of events that never happened, and details that had been dreamed up by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The state’s highest…
Ah, social media. It’s a place where a harmless comment can snowball into a full-blown controversy before you’ve even finished your morning coffee. We’ve all seen it happen: someone says something vaguely questionable, a screenshot gets shared, then suddenly every gaming forum and Twitter feed is ablaze with hot takes. The latest victim of this digital whirlwind is GameSir, a controller company that found itself at the center of a bizarre storm after a few Call of Duty pro players were caught on stream joking about “GA-ing” their controllers. For those who don’t live and breathe competitive Call of Duty,…
