Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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Two days before early voting began in New York, a group of elected officials and voting rights advocates gathered at the Brooklyn Museum—a building that would soon become one of the city’s busy early voting sites—with a straightforward message: don’t wait, don’t be scared, and don’t let anyone take your…
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On a Tuesday, a video appeared on X that had all the ingredients of a political bombshell. An account claiming to belong to a Texas man named Zyron Lewis showed a person identifying himself as Lewis telling a sickening story: back in 2012, when he was a middle school student, he said, he had been sexually assaulted by James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas. The clip zapped across the internet before anyone could ask basic questions. It turned out there were very good reasons to ask them. Talarico really had been a middle school teacher in 2012, and…
In an age when a single false post can travel around the world faster than the truth, Japan is making a bold and carefully considered move to protect the integrity of its elections. On Friday, the country’s communications ministry unveiled draft guidelines aimed at thirteen major social media operators, including global giants like X and Google, to help reduce the harmful impact of misinformation and disinformation that could undermine the fairness of voting. This is not about silencing dissent or policing opinions; it is about acknowledging that digital platforms have become the public square where political conversations happen, and that…
