Georgetown University is the new home for TrueMedia,
a public-interest initiative focused on developing strategies and
technologies to accurately identify deepfakes, AI-generated
content, and false information shared online.
As the information environment grows more complex and technological advances make it easier than ever to manipulate content, knowing what's true online has never been more difficult. Without shared facts, the public's faith in democratic institutions will continue to decline.
Today, Georgetown University is the new home for TrueMedia Initiative. Our objective is to advance research in content manipulation, provide accessible, transparent tools through our open platform, and grow a community that helps institutions and the public navigate fake and false content responsibly.
TrueMedia.org was originally founded by Oren Etzioni as a non-profit, backed by camp.org, to help identify deepfakes during the 2024 election season. In December 2025, as the original nonprofit prepared to sunset, leadership at Georgetown's Massive Data Institute stepped in to preserve and advance the technology and the community of researchers, technologists, civil servants, and policymakers surrounding this mission.
TrueMedia is nonpartisan. We do not adjudicate political viewpoints. We analyze media authenticity and veracity signals.
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
Fake and false media are increasingly used in fraud, identity abuse, political manipulation, and financial scams. Government and industry assessments have documented rising risks across sectors.
TrueMedia at Georgetown is driven by a cross-disciplinary team of experts spanning computer science, social sciences, communications, and the humanities.
Lisa Singh directs the TrueMedia project. She co-authored “Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign” and has authored / co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications and book chapters related to data-centric computing. She is is an expert in AI model development and misinformation detection.
Sejin Paik leads product and applied research at TrueMedia. Her current work examines how individuals perceive AI-generated political content and audits generative AI models to assess their ability to replicate human-like content. She is an expert in AI-mediated communication and information integrity.
Renée DiResta leads data manipulation research and policy at TrueMeida. Her work focuses on how narratives spread across social and media networks, and in 2024 she received the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization for her work translating research on online propaganda for public audiences. She is an expert in online manipulation and adversarial abuse.
Yoshi Kohno leads research on security, privacy, and safety for TrueMedia. He is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the U.S. NSF CAREER Award, the Technology Review TR-35 Young Innovator Award, the Golden Goose Award, and five Test of Time Awards. He is an expert in assessing risks and harms associated with emerging technologies.
We are a small, but dedicated team. In addition to our faculty, our initiative is supported by programmers, project management, graduate students, undergraduate students, and a team of volunteer labellers. A few of our team members are listed below:
Interested in partnering with us in various research capacities, or would like to support our mission through donations, funding, or technical resource support?
TrueMedia@georgetown.edu