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 the barometer of global events, the Israel-Hamas war is not only a seismic development, but it has sparked an unprecedented tsunami of noise and…
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…
“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.
When a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, emergency department doctors at Sunrise Hospital faced a challenge of a lifetime….
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,…
Dr. Samuel Woolley has a lot of experience warning the public. The author of the new book, The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of…