The FBI is warning that several fabricated videos are misusing its name and insignia to promote false claims of problems at the polls. A written statement purported to come from the FBI urges media ...

Following the shooting of Charlie Kirk, false accusations that the shooter was transgender spread online. This follows a pattern where disinformation falsely links transgender individuals to major ...

new video loaded: Amid Chaos in Mexico, False Images Stoked Fears transcript Online disinformation proliferated rapidly after the Mexican military killed the country’s top cartel leader, fueling fear ...

This article was supplied by NewsGuard. As the war in Ukraine approaches the three-year anniversary of the Russian invasion that launched the conflict, NewsGuard has now identified and debunked 302 ...

Most Americans lie at least one to four times each day research shows, and about 60% of people 18 and older can’t have a conversation without lying every ten minutes. Disinformation media and abstract ...

Americans did not learn the term “disinformation” until the Cold War neared its end, and they might be surprised to learn that the word has Bolshevik origins. It derives from the Russian ...

Throughout 2024—the so-called “year of elections”—when half the world’s population went to the ballot box, there was a tussle between authoritarianism and democracy that played to a relative draw.

The impacts of mis/disinformation extend far beyond politics. This growing cyber threat has the potential to impact us all, evading our conscious analytical thinking. No one is inherently immune from ...