Republicans’ ongoing lawsuits and House probes have buffeted those who study online falsehoods. Researchers say there’s been ...

It was unavoidable from the moment that NBC News agreed to host the third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night that it would be a conduit for misinformation. Any political debate ...

Firms such as Meta and Google have increased their donations to university academics, giving them a unique influence over a critical field of research.

The U.S. government has stopped warning some social networks about foreign disinformation campaigns on their platforms, reversing a years-long approach to preventing Russia and other actors from ...

During the first GOP primary presidential debate in August, rifts in the party over abortion policy became especially clear, spurring a similar conflict within right-wing media. In conservative ...

Another election cycle, another social media platform threatening democracy. According to a new report from Global Witness and NYU's Cybersecurity for Democracy team, TikTok is absolutely terrible ...

The researchers' evidence review covered 50 papers published between Jan. 1, 2020, and Feb. 24, 2023, that in total investigated the efficacy of 119 misinformation interventions. The research team ...

A Republican bill seeks to ensure doctors can’t be punished for trying novel therapies but explicitly does not apply to puberty blockers.

Parent company Meta is expected to announce its decision to let former president and 2024 candidate Donald Trump back on Facebook later this month Fox's Newt Gingrich says unless Jim Jordan is ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, biotech entrepreneur and ...

As Parton performed during the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving game against the Washington Commanders, some social media users ...