Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Think about how much of our lives now unfold on social media. We scroll through news, opinions, jokes, warnings and urgent calls to share something before we have even checked whether it is true. During an election, this constant stream of information becomes more than just background noise. It becomes…
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On a Thursday afternoon in Abuja, the launch of a book about digital transformation in Nigerian newspapers turned into a wake-up call for the country’s media and political class. The book, Digital Shift in Nigeria’s Newspaper Industry, authored by Dr Sunday Isuwa, the Group News Editor of Leadership Newspapers, was meant to explore how technology is changing journalism. But the speakers at the event made it clear that the stakes go far beyond newsroom gadgets and software. Archbishop Sunday Onuoha, President of Vision Africa and a former Special Assistant to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Privatisation, used the platform to issue…
It starts with a sound that cuts through the quiet of a police dispatch centre: the electronic chirp of a 911 call. A voice on the other end, trembling or frantic, speaks of a break-in, a fire, an injury. The dispatcher asks questions, sends help. Lights flash, sirens wail, officers and paramedics race across town. But when they arrive, there is no emergency. The house is dark. The street is empty. The call was a lie. For the people inside the responding vehicles, the moment is a jolt of adrenaline followed by a slow, sinking realization. They have been sent…
