Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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America’s food industry has decided that if you can’t beat them, join them—on social media, that is. Faced with the surging popularity of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, a coalition of some of the biggest names in American food and farming has launched an influencer-driven counteroffensive called Growing…
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On the morning of October 7, 2026, attendees began arriving at a hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania, for one of the most anticipated events in Europe’s counter-disinformation calendar: the #Disinfo2026 conference. They came with lanyards, notebooks, and coffee cups, ready to spend two days talking about foreign information manipulation, digital resilience, and the fight against lies in the public square. But something was off. As participants made their way into the main hall, they noticed that several sponsor logos on flyers, banners, and placards had been hastily covered over with strips of paper. It was a strange, almost surreal sight—like trying…
It begins not with marching, but with a rumor—the kind that slips into a late-night WhatsApp group, attached to a shaky mobile video and a voice that says: “They are coming for us.” By morning, the rumor has grown; by afternoon, it has hands and feet. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, a small shop run by a man from Mozambique—neatly stocked with soap, rice, milk, and phone credit—is torn apart by a crowd that does not know why it is there, only that it has permission to be angry. The shopkeeper stands outside, arms limp, watching four years of savings…
