Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Imagine going into an election where the most important issues aren’t explained but weaponised. That’s the picture that emerges from Re:Baltica’s analysis of Latvia’s parliamentary election on October 3. In a country already on edge because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, security was always going to be on voters’ minds.…
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In the years after the 2016 United States presidential election, something unsettling became clear to researchers at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS): the digital world had become a battlefield, and state-backed, algorithmically amplified disinformation was a weapon that most governments were not prepared to understand, let alone counter. At the time, this was still a largely understudied area, and RSIS researchers felt a growing urgency to make sense of it. In 2017, the school convened its first workshop on the subject, pulling together experts from sociology, psychology, communications, and military strategy—fields that rarely spoke to one another…
On a bright, expectant morning in Abuja, the kind of morning when the city’s usual chaos hums with possibility, a group of communicators, security officials, and concerned citizens gathered not for a celebration, but for a wake-up call. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) had chosen this public roadshow, organized by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), to deliver a message that cut through the noise of daily life: misinformation is not a harmless digital pastime. It is a weapon. It can destabilize communities, inflame tensions, and put innocent lives at risk. The Commandant of the NSCDC…
