Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.

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Paragraph 1 If you have driven past a construction site lately, you have probably seen the future: tall cranes, concrete slabs, and a low, windowless building rising from the ground like a warehouse that forgot its personality. It might be a data center. These facilities have become the backbone of the internet, quietly storing everything from your email to your family photos to the artificial intelligence tools that seem to be changing the world every few months. But as they multiply across Michigan and other states, they have also become a battleground. In a recent report from WILX, experts admitted…

Every era has its weapons, and one of the most dangerous today is not a bomb or a missile but a well-crafted lie, repeated often enough to look like the truth. In the digital age, hostile states have learned how to slip into people’s phones and homes, using fake news stories, imitation websites, forged newspaper pages, and armies of automated bots. The United Kingdom has decided to meet that threat head-on. In a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Andy Burnham announced the creation of a new National Centre for Information Defence, a dedicated body designed…

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