The speed and intensity of political news is turbo-charged by this increased polarization – and noise – on social media. Good information can be hard to find.
Thirteen years ago, a tweet about a helicopter in Abbottabad, Pakistan, sparked a new social media era. Security teams, financial traders and news organizations began…
On your average day, open source intelligence (OSINT) provides a valuable service, distilling social media posts and other data into credible information. But the Israel-Hamas…
Security and resilience teams are right to be worried about the dark side of generative AI. With trusted information from Factal in hand, they can respond quickly, confidently and with clarity.
“We had to relearn on the fly how to process what quickly devolved into an information environment none of us had seen before,” explained Alex Moore, Factal’s Eastern European editor, who has covered the Russian-Ukraine conflict for several years.
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Misinformation and disinformation have been cornerstones in the long, complicated conflict in Israeli and the Palestinian territories, but the latest confrontations set a new benchmark…
False information is expensive. In a widely-cited study (.pdf) released a year before the pandemic, an economist pegged the cost of “fake news” at $78…
Factal’s coronavirus coverage began on Dec. 31 CST with a seemingly-innocuous China News Service report about a small batch of viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan,…