Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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The 11th Digital PR Summit was not just another routine gathering of communication professionals exchanging business cards between sessions. It was a collective pause, a moment for Nigeria to think about the stories being told about it, and the stories it tells about itself. Organized against a backdrop of rapid…
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In the autumn of 2021, Albertans opened their mail to find a ballot that asked them a question about equalization—a dry, technical phrase that most Canadians outside the province had rarely heard. But inside Alberta, the referendum was never really about a formula for federal transfers. It became a rolling argument about fairness, belonging, resentment, and, for a loud and growing minority, the possibility of a break from Canada entirely. The article behind this conversation tells us something important and uncomfortable: when it comes to why some Albertans support secession, disinformation matters more than almost anything else. That finding is…
There’s a special kind of irony that hits you in the gut when a joke about artificial intelligence stealing your job turns out to be the exact thing that gets stolen. That’s the strange, dizzying place we’ve landed. AI is coming for your jokes — and apparently it’s armed with double Ds. In the past couple of weeks, two working stand-up comedians have posted side-by-side videos showing hyper-realistic, heavily sexualized AI-generated female “comedians” performing their material word for word. In some cases, the fake performers even mimicked the same venue background, the same outfit, the same random aside to an…
