Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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In the northern Israeli city of Afula, mornings usually begin with the ordinary soundtrack of small-city life: children lingering over breakfast, drivers honking in light traffic, shopkeepers pulling up metal shutters, and buses wheezing their way through streets that have seen generations pass. But in recent months, that familiar rhythm…
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For months now, a quieter, more insidious battle has been waged alongside the physical one, and its weapons are not missiles but screenshots, not troops but trolls. In this corner of the information war, Russian propaganda has once again cycled through a familiar playbook, resurrecting the ghost of a falsehood with a fresh, digital coat of paint. The most recent target is the Ukrainian woman, cast in a fabricated narrative of forced conscription. The specific claim is as absurd as it is calculated: a viral screenshot purporting to show an official tender from Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, allegedly ordered through…
Inside a modest office in Abuja, Nigeria, the air is thick with concentration. Monsur Hussain and his team of software developers and AI researchers huddle around laptops, the glow of screens reflecting in their eyes. Lines of code scroll past, machine-learning models hum through test runs, and someone on the far side of the table presents a revised algorithm with a new set of results. These are not students working on a side project; they are the people behind Dubawa AI, a fact-checking tool designed to help journalists and ordinary citizens sort truth from falsehood in a region where information…
