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Byline: Sheera Frenkel, Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers Eight years after Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, foreign influence with American voters has grown more sophisticated. That could [...]

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 [...]

Ocho años después de que Rusia interfiriera en las elecciones presidenciales de 2016, la influencia extranjera sobre los electores estadounidenses se ha vuelto más sofisticada. Cuando Rusia interfirió en las […]

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 [...]

Byline: Kate Conger, Tiffany Hsu and Aaron Krolik After Hurricane Helene, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hard-right conservative from Georgia, shared on X the widely debunked claim that government scientists [...]

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 […]

Byline: Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu The modern office building near the harbor in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, is best known as the home of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which [...]

Byline: Emily Cochrane, Christopher Flavelle, Michael D. Shear and Tiffany Hsu In North Carolina and other states, a barrage of conspiracy theories and false claims over efforts to bring relief [...]

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 [...]

The racist and inflammatory narrative spread on the backs of memes, greed, biases and news deserts. https://www.nytimes.com/by/tiffany-hsu The false narrative that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/technology/trump-dead-cats-migrants-ohio.html was quickly [...]

Byline: Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson Large organizations and brands saw their advertising dollars funneled to videos amplifying inflammatory narratives, underscoring how difficult it can be to maintain brand [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Tiffany Hsu 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Steven Lee Myers, Stuart A. Thompson and Tiffany Hsu Users on X, Truth Social, Rumble and Gab have benefited from a series of major events to spread baseless falsehoods [...]

The likely Democratic presidential nominee faces toxic discourse unlike anything Biden ever has. https://www.nytimes.com/by/tiffany-hsu Vice President Kamala Harris has been campaigning for president for three days. And she is already [...]

Las afirmaciones de que el presidente Biden y sus aliados ordenaron el ataque contra Donald Trump, o que Trump fingió el atentado, comenzaron rápidamente y se extendieron por las redes [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson To fight disinformation in a chaotic election year, Ruth Quint, a volunteer for a nonpartisan civic group in Pennsylvania, is relying on tactics [...]

Disinformation experts immediately urged caution, warning people not to jump to conclusions. Unsubstantiated claims about what took place at Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pa., immediately flooded social media after former [...]

Byline: Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer who now lives in exile in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Katie Glueck, Tiffany Hsu and Ang Li A flurry of recent clips, many of them edited or lacking context, laid bare a major challenge for the president as he [...]

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, [...]

Byline: Kashmir Hill and Tiffany Hsu 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 [...]

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 [...]

False narratives and conspiracy theories about climate change, immigration and Ukraine are spreading via politicians and foreign operatives. The https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/world/europe/angry-farmers-are-reshaping-europe.html of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/world/europe/spark-french-farmer-protests.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/climate/europe-farming-protests-policy.html is more than just a major issue [...]

Byline: Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers A study found that hundreds of sites, many without obvious Kremlin links, copied Russian propaganda and spread it to unsuspecting audiences ahead of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/technology/an-ai-researcher-takes-on-election-deepfakes.html, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu For nearly 30 years, Oren Etzioni was among the most optimistic of artificial intelligence researchers. But in 2019 Dr. Etzioni, a University of Washington [...]

Byline: Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say. Covert [...]