Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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The Unseen Price of Google’s AI Overviews: A Whisper of Misinformation in a Tsunami of Data Imagine a vast ocean teeming with information, an unending current of facts, opinions, and stories. For years, Google Search has been our mighty vessel, guiding us through these waters, helping us navigate towards the shores of knowledge. Then came Google’s AI Overviews, a seemingly miraculous new feature, promising to deliver concise summaries directly to the surface, saving us the arduous dive into countless links. On the face of it, this sounds like a technological marvel, a step towards an even more efficient future. Indeed,…

Imagine for a moment you’re a storyteller, a truth-seeker, living in a country where the simple act of reporting could land you in hot water. This isn’t some dystopian fantasy; it’s the reality many journalists face in Turkey, particularly since a law, innocuously named the “disinformation law,” took effect in October 2022. This law, which criminalizes “publicly spreading misleading information,” has become a heavy shadow hanging over the press, a tool, it seems, to silence inconvenient narratives rather than genuinely combat falsehoods. From the outside, this might sound like a reasonable measure – who wants “misleading information” out there? But…

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