Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
We monitor, analyze, and combat disinformation to preserve the integrity of public discourse.
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When a bank run, a pandemic, or an election spirals out of control, the spark is often information. In 2023, rumors online helped accelerate the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. During COVID-19, false claims about vaccines undermined public trust in health guidance and contributed to preventable harm. In the United…
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There is something deeply unsettling about the moments when ordinary people realize that the systems meant to protect them have quietly turned against them. It is one thing to watch a news story about corruption from a distance, and another to sit in your own living room, staring at a piece of paper that threatens to take your home, your freedom, or your sense of safety. Atlanta News First Investigates understands that gap between abstract headlines and lived reality. As the Southeast’s largest investigative team, the program does not just chase scandals for the sake of drama; it pulls back…
On a quiet Sunday, a measure of justice finally edged closer for a 25-year-old woman whose life had been shattered by betrayal. Police arrested a man named Shekhar, a resident of Govindpur village in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district, in connection with the alleged rape of the woman in Saharanpur. The arrest did not make headlines with dramatic raids or cinematic heroics, but for the survivor it was a moment of profound importance—a signal that her voice, after weeks or months of pain and fear, was being heard. Shekhar was not a stranger lurking in the dark; he was someone she had…
