Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Treasure Island, a small barrier-island city along Florida’s Gulf Coast, has never been the kind of place that enjoys big political drama. It is a community of beachgoers, snowbirds, local business owners, and families who chose to live somewhere that feels smaller and slower than the rest of the Tampa…
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Imagine it is 2 a.m. You are pregnant, running a fever, and your head is pounding. You reach for the bottle of acetaminophen sitting in the medicine cabinet—Tylenol, one of the most common over-the-counter medicines in America—and your hand stops. Days earlier, while scrolling TikTok, you saw a video that said taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Another said Big Pharma has known for years and hidden the truth. A third said a mother’s story is more powerful than any study. You close the cabinet and decide to wait out the pain. That fictional scene is actually a public health…
For anyone who has been watching the collision between fast-moving artificial intelligence and the law, this week brought a moment worth pausing over. A federal appeals court in St. Louis has temporarily blocked Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images, handing Elon Musk’s company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, a significant legal victory. The ruling from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals puts the Minnesota law on hold while the company pursues a constitutional challenge. The law, which took effect on August 1, was designed to stop the creation of realistic fake nude images of real people without…
