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Eight years after Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, foreign influence with American voters has grown more sophisticated. That could have outsize consequences in the 2024 race. When Russia [...]

Eight years after Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, foreign influence with American voters has grown more sophisticated. That could have outsize consequences in the 2024 race. When Russia [...]

After Hurricane Helene, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hard-right conservative from Georgia, shared on X the widely debunked claim that government scientists could control the weather. ''It's ridiculous for anyone [...]

The modern office building near the harbor in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, is best known as the home of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which displays 320 specimens of mammal penises. To […]

Experts warn that weather-related disinformation can rapidly escalate into real-world risks and distract from aid. Wildly improbable conspiracy theories about Hurricanes Helene and Milton have spread largely unchecked on social [...]

In North Carolina and other states, a barrage of conspiracy theories and false claims over efforts to bring relief after Hurricane Helene is alarming and disheartening officials and workers. In [...]

Large organizations and brands saw their advertising dollars funneled to videos amplifying inflammatory narratives, underscoring how difficult it can be to maintain brand safety online. On YouTube, an ad for [...]

With a flurry of hacks and fake websites, Iran has intensified its efforts to discredit American democracy and possibly tip the race against former President Donald Trump. A website called [...]

America's right flank remains the chief purveyor of misinformation, but this summer's political tumult created ideal conditions for falsehoods to spread among progressives. Several elected officials, along with a top [...]

Tate Fall is overwhelmed. When she signed on to be director of elections in Cobb County, Ga., last year, she knew she'd be registering voters and recruiting poll workers, maybe [...]

The Global Alliance for Responsible Media will dissolve after Mr. Musk accused the group of orchestrating a boycott. An influential advertising industry group said it would shut down after being [...]

Politicians have long faced racist and sexist attacks online. But Ms. Harris is being attacked on more platforms, with new technologies and in front of bigger audiences than Barack Obama [...]

Claims that President Biden and his allies ordered the attack on Donald J. Trump, or that Mr. Trump staged the attack, started quickly and spread fast across social media. Four [...]

To fight disinformation in a chaotic election year, Ruth Quint, a volunteer for a nonpartisan civic group in Pennsylvania, is relying on tactics both extensively studied and frequently deployed. Many [...]

Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer who now lives in exile in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping. China's reaction of late [...]

Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer who now lives in exile in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping. China's reaction of late [...]

A flurry of recent clips, many of them edited or lacking context, laid bare a major challenge for the president as he tries to persuade voters he has the energy [...]

The news was featured on MSN.com: ''Prominent Irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.'' At the top of the story was a photo of Dave Fanning. But Mr. Fanning, [...]

False narratives and conspiracy theories about climate change, immigration and Ukraine are spreading via politicians and foreign operatives. The fury of European farmers is more than just a major issue [...]

A study found that hundreds of sites, many without obvious Kremlin links, copied Russian propaganda and spread it to unsuspecting audiences ahead of the E.U. election. The website calling itself [...]

With less than six months until the 2024 election, the political uses of A.I. are more theoretical than transformational. ''This is the dog that didn't bark,'' said one adviser to [...]

The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence. As experts warn that images, audio and video generated by artificial intelligence could [...]

Several dentists recently took to TikTok to debunk a conspiracy theory: that toothpaste tubes were printed with secret codes signaling their true ingredients to powerful people in the know. Their [...]

America's adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say. An article on a fake online news outlet that Meta [...]

Journalists covering the trial face a tricky balancing act: inform the public while keeping its participants out of harm's way. Opening arguments in former President Donald J. Trump's criminal trial [...]

Jackson Hinkle has cultivated an online persona so incendiary that he has been kicked off YouTube, Twitch and Instagram. He rages on undaunted, even energized. He produces a regular podcast [...]

For nearly 30 years, Oren Etzioni was among the most optimistic of artificial intelligence researchers. But in 2019 Dr. Etzioni, a University of Washington professor and founding chief executive of [...]

China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say. Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American [...]

Kate Middleton has long been a magnet for unproven rumors: She pressured an art gallery to remove a royal portrait! She split from her husband! She changed her hairstyle to [...]

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and other key developers are acting to prevent the technology from threatening democracies, even as their tools become more powerful. Artificial intelligence companies have been at [...]

A long-running network of accounts, known as Spamouflage, is using A.I.-generated images to amplify negative narratives involving the presidential race. A Chinese influence campaign that has tried for years to [...]

The tech company's plan is similar to one announced two days earlier by Meta, another Silicon Valley giant. Google, whose work in artificial intelligence helped make A.I.-generated content far easier [...]

The people on 4chan who created the images of Ms. Swift thought of it as a sort of game, the researchers said. Images of Taylor Swift that had been generated [...]

In the frantic early hours of Oct. 7, amid wailing sirens and word of gunfights along Israel's southern border, Achiya Schatz rushed with his toddler and heavily pregnant wife into [...]

In the frantic early hours of Oct. 7, amid wailing sirens and word of gunfights along Israel's southern border, Achiya Schatz rushed with his toddler and heavily pregnant wife into [...]

A wave of elections coincides with state influence operations, a surge of extremism, A.I. advances and a pullback in social media protections. Billions of people will vote in major elections [...]

The singer did not promote a giveaway of the popular cookware, but an artificially generated version of her voice suggested otherwise. Taylor Swift's affinity for Le Creuset is real: Her [...]

Content from at least 30 channels in the network drew nearly 120 million views and 730,000 subscribers since last year. In a faintly stilted tone and with slightly awkward grammar, [...]

Online influencers, fossil fuel companies and some of the countries attending COP28 have nourished a feedback loop of falsehoods. As the world's leaders gather this week at a major summit [...]

Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times's DealBook Summit. Advertisers said on Thursday that they did not plan to reopen [...]

Ahead of a presidential election in January, Taiwanese fact checkers and watchdogs say they are ready for Beijing. But they are still worried. Suspicious videos that began circulating in Taiwan [...]

People who study social media say the conflict between Israel and Hamas has underscored the need for better data transparency from platforms. As the Israel-Hamas war flooded social media with [...]

Warner Bros. and Sony have joined other companies in pausing spending on X, formerly Twitter, over Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic post. More major advertisers have paused their spending [...]

Disney, Apple, Paramount and Lionsgate halted marketing on X, formerly Twitter, as Elon Musk faced a furor over antisemitic abuse on his social media platform. The blowback over Elon Musk's [...]

Fakes related to the conflict have been limited and largely unconvincing, but their presence has people doubting real evidence. It was a gruesome image that shot rapidly around the internet: [...]

Now rebranded as X, the site has experienced a surge in racist, antisemitic and other hateful speech. Under his watch, millions of people have been exposed to misinformation about climate [...]

The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off. After President Biden won the election nearly three years ago, three of every 10 Americans [...]

OpenAI released a new version of its DALL-E image generator to a small group of testers and incorporated the technology into its popular ChatGPT chatbot. ChatGPT can now generate images [...]

The musician and his carefree vacation vibes inspired a business empire. Can it go on without its founder? Jimmy Buffett, who died of cancer on Friday, was many things: a [...]

Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfires. As natural disasters and extreme environmental conditions became more commonplace around [...]