Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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In the final stretch before South Africa’s local government elections on 4 November, the Electoral Commission of South Africa found itself defending something just as important as ballot boxes: public trust. With at least 700 complaints about election-related misinformation already received, the IEC was dealing with a threat that did…
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Imagine it’s election day, and you’re doing what millions of us do now: scrolling through TikTok or X while waiting for news. Suddenly, a video appears—it’s supposedly filmed inside your local polling station. Someone is holding up a pile of opened, discarded ballots, claiming in an urgent voice that vote rigging is underway, that your votes are being thrown away. The video flips through the papers, zooms in on the markings, and the comments explode with anger and suspicion. In that moment, your gut tightens. You think, “If this is true, why bother voting?” You might stay home. And you…
It’s easy to forget that the same digital tools we use to share our lives, find community, and stay informed have also become a kind of fog machine, deliberately obscuring the difference between what’s real and what’s merely being repeated until it feels real. Hideo Kojima, the visionary game designer behind Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, has been thinking about this fog for decades, and he’s increasingly worried about how it’s settling over our daily lives. After the release of his latest cinematic project, Digger, a film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu—the acclaimed filmmaker behind Birdman and The Revenant—Kojima…
