Tornadoes wreak havoc on the continental United States every year, causing widespread structural damage and killing dozens of people. Authorities say about 1,000 tornadoes impact the continental United States annually, 20 percent of which might be considered violent.
No one knows this better than Factal North America Lead Theresa Seiger who has become the resident expert on tornadoes. She leads the editorial team when preparing for tornado season each year and covers their impacts across the country.
There’s no bigger stage for mis- and disinformation than the deep-rooted hostility between India and Pakistan. Both governments routinely engage in censorship and disinformation efforts,…
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…