For three weeks, 52 participants from different professions and backgrounds were enrolled into a course that sought to ...

Trump and RFK Jr. spread misinformation about vaccines and autism as they upended the federal vaccination schedule ...

So-called “America First” Republicans are meddling in South Korea’s politics to kill efforts to thwart misinformation and disinformation online.

Industry experts and lawmakers are pushing back against "disinformation" about data centers, arguing that they are vital for American jobs and technological leadership.

The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp. Starling Lab, a research collaboration from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, estimates that it took until 1975—149 ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned that the spread of misinformation, hate speech and deepfakes is exacerbating and inciting real-world harm to refugees and humanitarians. Artificial ...

Misinformation about mental health has been identified across various online spaces, including Facebook, Reddit, and, prominently, TikTok. In 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General even named health ...

New rules proposed by the U.S. Postal Service would make states give data on voters who receive mail-in ballots for federal elections. This after President Trump tightened mail-in voting rules with a ...

JAKARTA, May 19 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities, including the military, used online disinformation campaigns to brand activists and journalists as "foreign agents" and silence dissent, sometimes ...

Since the first cases of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 2, misinformation has rapidly flooded the Internet. Much of it is familiar ...

Experts say A.I. tools have made it even easier for influencers and others to spread false messages online. By Teddy Rosenbluth and Steven Lee Myers Influencers and others on social media have seized ...

As people increasingly turn to social media for health advice, a new study finds that much of the content circulating on these online platforms about autism and mental health issues is misleading.