The crisis in Ukraine is dominating social media feeds. Many videos, photos and posts are popping up, all showing what's happening in Ukraine as the crisis unfolds. Remember, there may be some fake information circulating.
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Governor Jay Inslee testified in favor of Substitute Senate Bill 5843, which aims to disallow politicians from making false statements about in-state election results and election processes. Inslee said "politicians are not above anyone else," and that…
Misinformation is putting people at risk, some experts say. False information is pushing some people to not get the COVID vaccine.
Boris Johnson's election gamble appears to have paid off.
Social media companies are feeling their way in the dark, and sometimes fumbling their way through new efforts to fight misinformation on their platforms as they roll out rules that are meant to increase transparency.
An alleged anti-vaxxer has been charged with
The Democratic National Committee wrote to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg before Thanksgiving to raise concerns about the company's ability to catch online trolls and to change its political ad policy, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN.
Singapore just showed the world how it plans to use a controversial new law to tackle what it deems fake news — and critics say it's just what they expected would happen.
Sacha Baron Cohen has had it with social media.
During a meeting in the Oval Office Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled out an iPad to show a small group of Republican senators and President Donald Trump a propaganda video casting the Kurds in a negative light, according to a GOP source familiar with the situatio
Right-wing social media accounts have been widely sharing two photographs that they claim show the whistleblower at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and prove that the whistleblower is biased against Trump and hopelessly untrustworthy.
Facebook has become a fertile breeding ground for disinformation about Congress's impeachment inquiry, according to a new report by the civil society group Avaaz.
Facebook and Twitter are reviewing and taking down posts that spread disinformation about how and when to vote on Election Day.
In the runup to the 2020 election, the graduates of Russia's infamous "troll factory" are honing their fake-news skills. This time, they are doing it openly, using Africa as a proving ground — and with the help of Alexander Malkevich, a Russian propagandist exiled from the US.
The executive overseeing Facebook's recently-unveiled news section appeared to defend the company's controversial decision to include Breitbart, a far-right website known for misinformation, as one of its sources.
A slew of policy changes this week at Facebook show how the social media giant can act decisively on pressing public policy matters — when it chooses to.
Mark Zaid, the lawyer representing the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint has touched off an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, was sitting in the office of his Maryland home earlier this month when a Google alert popped up on his phone.
The Democratic National Committee warned presidential campaigns on Monday of "heightened disinformation and discourse manipulation activity" around the Democratic debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times.
The FBI was caught flat-footed by Russia's disinformation campaign in 2016, a new bipartisan report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee has found.
Deepfake videos are quickly becoming a problem, but there has been much debate about just how big the problem really is. One company is now trying to put a number on it.
The State Department inspector general provided Congress on Wednesday with documents that included materials President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani had given to the department earlier this year containing unproven claims about Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The Trump administration on Monday slapped sanctions on a key ally of President Vladimir Putin who the Treasury Department said financed an internet troll factory that deployed social media campaigns in an attempt to influence the 2018 US midterm elections.
As the United States government gears up for its 2020 census, it's working closely with large tech companies to get ahead of potential malicious campaigns looking to exploit their platforms to deter people, including minorities, from taking part in the once-a-decade event. The Census Bureau is going so far as to consider how voice assistants, such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, could be used to spread misinformation.
In the moments before President Donald Trump was set to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, his mind was decidedly elsewhere.
