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- Tom Garnett: Co-Founder and CEO
- Vlad Galu: Co-Founder and CTO
Refute is a technology company that builds software designed to detect, analyze, and combat digital misinformation across online platforms by combining machine learning, semantic analysis, and knowledge graph techniques. The company’s platform ingests content from social networks, news sites, blogs, and other digital sources to identify misleading
narratives, factual inaccuracies, and coordinated disinformation patterns in real time. Its system correlates detected content with verified data, expert sources, and contextual signals to assess credibility, flag questionable material, and support automated or human-in-the-loop review workflows. Refute also offers APIs and analytics tools that enable developers, researchers, and platform moderators to integrate misinformation detection capabilities into product experiences, content moderation pipelines, and reporting dashboards. The company supports customizable rulesets and alerting mechanisms that help teams tailor detection and response criteria to specific use cases, audiences, and regulatory environments. Refute works with partners to enhance content integrity across digital ecosystems and to provide structured insights into how false and misleading information spreads over time.