Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Inside a crowded Moscow conference hall, the air hummed with a dozen languages and the quiet click of laptops and translation earpieces. Around the long tables and standing-room-only corners, more than two thousand fact-checkers from eighty countries had come together with a shared, urgent mission: to make sense of a…
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There is a particular kind of danger that does not arrive with sirens or explosions, but rather in the quiet spread of a lie, a manipulated image, a forged article, or a bot-filled comment section. That was the danger the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, chose to place at the centre of his first address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Speaking to world leaders, he warned that recent years had seen “an industrial-scale assault by hostile actors on the information environment” in the UK and many of its allies. It was a powerful…
The Storm Over Susan Collins: A Political Firestorm in Maine The late September air in Portland, Maine, usually carries the crisp promise of autumn, but on this particular Wednesday, it was thick with political tension. A group of Maine Democrats gathered near the city’s waterfront, their voices sharp and accusatory as they stood outside the office of Senator Susan Collins. The target of their ire was not a piece of legislation or a policy vote, but a newly published news report that threatened to upend one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country. The report, a detailed…
