Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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In a world where the next headline is always a swipe away, and where falsehoods can travel faster than corrections, understanding how ordinary citizens navigate their daily news has become essential to the health of democracy. A new study from DE FACTO, one of fifteen European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)…
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The internet has a way of turning raw emotion into a storm, and few things stir that storm more than crime, punishment, and the possibility of vigilante-style justice. Over the last few days, social media users have been sharing a dramatic claim about Vickrum Digwa, the man who killed Henry Nowak. According to posts on Facebook and Instagram, Digwa had been attacked while in prison. The posts claimed that a mixture of sugar and boiling water was thrown into his face, causing serious burns. To make it look more credible, the story was attached to a photo of Digwa with…
On a gray October morning in Warsaw, a senior Polish minister looked directly into the cameras and said the quiet part out loud: the world’s biggest social media companies are not neutral conduits for Russian lies. Krzysztof Gawkowski, Poland’s minister of digital affairs, announced on October 21 that the state would begin imposing financial penalties on platforms that fail to remove Kremlin-linked disinformation. His words carried the weight of a country that has become one of the primary targets of Russia’s information warfare. “On this disinformation front, there is a silent ally to the Russian bots and the Kremlin’s GRU:…
