Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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To understand the global battle against misinformation, one must look at the recent work of Cornell University’s David Rand and Gordon Pennycook, whose comprehensive study has been honored as the “Publication of the Year” by the Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA). Published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behavior,…
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We don’t need an academic report to confirm what we already feel in our gut: the internet has become a toxic swamp of propaganda, synthetic AI-generated “slop,” and blatant dishonesty. It has reached a point where even the most media-literate, educated citizens are regularly posting screenshots on social media or group chats with the hesitant plea: “Not sure if this is true.” A 2024 study by Professor Andrea Prat at Columbia Business School suggests that roughly half of the U.S. population is grappling with this exact uncertainty. Ten years ago, many experts feared a future where the line between fact…
The political landscape of Bangladesh has once again become a battleground for competing narratives, as the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), recently took to the streets to issue a scathing rebuke against their rivals, the Islami Chhatra Shibir. On a Saturday evening, a procession of JCD activists marched from the iconic Central Shaheed Minar to the Shahbagh Police Station, fueled by what they characterized as a fundamental betrayal of public trust. At the heart of their protest was a demand for accountability regarding what they describe as “fabricated” narratives of abduction, which…
