During times of war, Americans instinctively look for two things: protection and truth. That is why it is so troubling when senior government officials stand at a podium, especially during wartime, an...

President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s threat to revoke broadcast licenses over news coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, calling medi...

Deception, disinformation, and fakery are nothing new in the world. Long before the current era (BCE), the ancient Greeks used deceptive tactics against their enemies during the Trojan War, when they ...

About a dozen times each day, medical staff at Parkside Pediatrics in Spartanburg, South Carolina, head to the clinic’s parking lot, reaching inside cars and minivans to check children and their paren...

French authorities said they had detected a disinformation operation linked to the Russian Storm-1516 network that aimed to suggest that President Emmanuel Macron was implicated in the scandal surroun...

Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University

American supermodel Bella Hadid takes to Instagram every few years to share a behind-the-scenes look at living with chronic illness. CBC News

From Facebook and TikTok to Instagram and X, AI-manipulated images and videos depicting Alex Pretti’s final moments have proliferated across the internet since his fatal shooting by federal officers i...

Misinformation, turbocharged by AI, was hard to avoid in the hours and days that followed the Bondi beach terror attack last month, as some platforms pushed dubious claims to users trying to find fact...

India's chief elections commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday exhorted the young electors to not only vote without fail, but to also lead the fight against misinformation, disinformation and false na...

Misinformation is a relatively new problem in the U.S. But it’s long been an issue in Finland due to the No rdic country’s long-simmering tensions with its often belligerent neighbor, Russia. Fi...

Iran’s internet shutdown, now in place for 36 hours as the authorities seek to quell escalating anti-government protests, represents a “new high-water mark” in terms of its sophistication and severity...

In an age of evolving technologies, parents and educators are drawing from a variety of sources to ensure their children and students under their care receive the most accurate and unbiased informatio...

In an age of evolving technologies, parents and educators are drawing from a variety of sources to ensure their children and students under their care receive the most accurate and unbiased informatio...

Five years ago this week, on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump told thousands of his supporters in Washington, D.C., to “fight like hell” and to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” to protest the alleg...

By Stephen M. Fry, Ph.D.

University of Western Australia

Five years ago this week, on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump told thousands of his supporters in Washington, D.C., to “fight like hell” and to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” to protest the alleg...

By Stephen M. Fry, Ph.D.

University of Western Australia

The recent publication of the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy showed that the suspension of agreements between the U.S.’s Global Engagement Center and foreign counterparts was no...

Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador ...

Since 2018, there’s been a sustained effort to redefine anything that moderately inconveniences a right-wing populist as ‘censorship.’ Labeling a tweet is censorship. Fact-checking is censorship. Spee...

Since 2018, there’s been a sustained effort to redefine anything that moderately inconveniences a right-wing populist as ‘censorship.’ Labeling a tweet is censorship. Fact-checking is censorship. Spee...

Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador ...

The recent publication of the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy showed that the suspension of agreements between the U.S.’s Global Engagement Center and foreign counterparts was no...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino brushed off questions last week about his past claims of a cover up in the case of who planted pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committee offic...

TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation. The factcheckin...

A new study shows that Latinos who rely on Spanish-language social media for news are significantly more likely to believe false political narratives than those who consume English-language content. T...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino brushed off questions last week about his past claims of a cover up in the case of who planted pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national committee offic...

TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation. The factcheckin...

Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. New research, publishe...

Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that’s obviously wrong. New research, publishe...

A new feature on X has stirred confusion, anger and a wave of online sleuthing after users discovered that the platform was suddenly displaying the surprising locations where certain accounts are base...

A new study shows that Latinos who rely on Spanish-language social media for news are significantly more likely to believe false political narratives than those who consume English-language content. T...

In June, the secure Signal account of a European foreign minister pinged with a text message. The sender claimed to be U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio with an urgent request. A short time later, t...

Europe is looking to online platforms and influencers to help fight disinformation and promote democracy according to a European Commission strategy presented on Wednesday amid concerns over interfere...

The Innovation Incubator at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is launching a new pop-up course this upcoming spring titled, Drowning in BS: Conspiracies, Urban Legends and AI ...

Someone I know became a conspiracy theorist seemingly overnight. It was during the pandemic, and out of nowhere, they suddenly started posting daily on Facebook about the dangers of covid vaccines and...

At the University of Illinois Office of Civic Life’s Democracy Summit last month, author Barbara McQuade of the University of Michigan addressed the growing threat of misinformation and its impacts on...

At the University of Illinois Office of Civic Life’s Democracy Summit last month, author Barbara McQuade of the University of Michigan addressed the growing threat of misinformation and its impacts on...