Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Imagine a scenario where the world’s most influential energy companies—the giants of oil and gas, often referred to as “Big Oil”—have known the devastating truth about climate change for over six decades. They understood that burning fossil fuels was relentlessly pushing our planet toward a crisis. Yet, instead of sounding…
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It’s a strange and often unsettling world when information, or rather, disinformation, flies around the internet like wildfire. For months now, whispers, then shouts, about President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s health have been circulating in the Philippines. It all came to a head with a particularly nasty piece of fabricated content: a graphic, made to look like it came straight from reputable news outlets, claiming the President had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Imagine the chaos and concern this would cause. The graphic, splashed with the logos of GMA News, ABS-CBN News, and News5, boldly stated, “Breaking news: President…
In today’s interconnected world, where every piece of information is just a click away, it’s becoming alarmingly difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. This deluge of digital content, often boosted by powerful algorithms, is creating a rift in society, pushing people into “echo chambers” where they’re only exposed to ideas that validate their existing beliefs. Imagine a world where everyone lives in their own bubble, constantly fed information that reinforces their biases, while anything that challenges their views is either ignored or dismissed as false. This isn’t a dystopian novel; it’s the reality we’re rapidly approaching, a “fractured reality” that…
