Original reporting that examines coordinated behavior, traces information flows and tests what the available evidence can support.
Influence operations are coordinated inauthentic behavior designed to shape how people perceive an issue, person or event. They may combine misleading narratives, selective framing, networks of accounts and artificial amplification.
Read the full explainerQuick sourced checks of circulating posts, images, videos and statements.
Our investigations combine open-source research, manual data collection, source work and fact-checking. Each report states what the evidence establishes, what it does not, and how much of it we examined. We also share our dataset when possible.
We archive public posts, accounts, media and timestamps before they change or are deleted.
Every finding rests on a stated number of posts and accounts, over a defined period, on named platforms.
We treat similar wording or suspicious timing as leads and do not assign motive on content alone. We examine overall behavior and test other signals.
We plainly state in our reports what our evidence establishes and what it does not, while ensuring readers know when an activity has a potential alignment with a foreign government's messaging.
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