Protecting Truth in the Digital Age

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

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This collection of scholarship maps a rapidly maturing field: the study of misinformation and the search for ways to counter it. At first glance, it reads likea dense bibliography, but beneath the citations liesa vivid and urgent conversation about how people around the world encounter falsehoods, why they believe them,…

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Sometimes the scariest thing in the world is not an enemy but a lie—especially a lie that looks exactly like the truth. CNN recently reported something that sounds like a dystopian thriller but happened in real life: an AI-generated false intelligence report nearly triggered a confrontation between the United States and China. It was not a hacker intrusion. It was not a deliberate attempt by a foreign power to plant misinformation. It was a machine hallucination, laundered through a national security process and then lifted into official channels until the fabrication was about to change geopolitical behavior. For a while,…

Let’s be honest about what’s happening around Caitlin Clark right now, because it’s getting a little absurd. If you’ve followed women’s basketball at all over the past two years, you’ve watched a generational talent break records, sell out arenas, and turn a league that was already growing into a full-blown cultural phenomenon. And yet instead of celebrating that, we’re hearing media voices like Cari Champion, a former ESPN anchor, tell us that Caitlin Clark is an “avatar for people who want to spread hate.” She’s gone on podcasts with Jemele Hill and Bakari Sellers and suggested that Clark’s fans are…

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