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Byline: Steven Lee Myers, Ken Bensinger and Jim Rutenberg Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim [...]

Sanctions announced on Friday are an effort to undercut RT by making it difficult for the network to conduct global business in dollars. The United States, Canada and Britain on [...]

Byline: Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano, Aaron Krolik and Steven Lee Myers Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a [...]

Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages. Telegram has […]

Federal prosecutors say Russia paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin. In early 2022, a young [...]

Dimitri K. Simes, who was an adviser to Donald J. Trump's first campaign, and his wife, Anastasia Simes, are accused of violating U.S. sanctions. The Justice Department indicted an American [...]

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 [...]

American spy agencies have assessed that the Kremlin favors former President Donald J. Trump, seeing him as skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine. The United States on Wednesday announced a […]

El FBI allanó los domicilios de dos conocidos comentaristas de canales de televisión estatales rusos como parte de un esfuerzo por desmontar los intentos de influir en las elecciones de [...]

The F.B.I. raided the homes of two prominent commentators on Russian state television channels as part of an effort to blunt attempts to influence November's election. The Department of Justice [...]

The F.B.I. raided the homes of two prominent commentators on Russian state television channels as part of an effort to blunt attempts to influence November’s election. The Department of Justice [...]

The Justice Department set new guidelines for agents to share tips with Facebook, X and other platforms after a legal challenge prompted a suspension of that communication. The Federal Bureau [...]

The Justice Department set new guidelines for agents to share tips with Facebook, X and other platforms after a legal challenge prompted a suspension of that communication. The Federal Bureau [...]

■ On New Year’s Day, a Telegram user in Portugal posted an ominous message that the wait was over. This was the year to stop the “Population Replacement” — a [...]

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 [...]

Intelligence officials from three countries flagged a Russian influence campaign that used artificial intelligence to create nearly 1,000 fake accounts on the social media platform X. The Justice Department said […]

Intelligence officials from three countries flagged a Russian influence campaign that used artificial intelligence to create nearly 1,000 fake accounts on the social media platform X. The Justice Department said [...]

Cuando Chet Hanks utilizó por primera vez la frase “verano de chico blanco”, parecía que lo hacía con ironía. Ahora los supremacistas blancos y otros grupos de odio se han [...]

Byline: Steven Lee Myers When Chet Hanks first used the phrase 'white boy summer,' it was meant to be fun and playful, he said. Now it has been appropriated around [...]

When Chet Hanks first used the phrase ''white boy summer,'' it was meant to be fun and playful, he said. Now it has been appropriated around the world by white [...]

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: Steven Lee Myers In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing [...]

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 [...]

Russian propagandists are spoofing broadcasters and mimicking French and U.S. intelligence agencies to stoke fear about security at the Games. With its athletes barred from competing in the Summer Olympics [...]

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 [...]

In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing much the same thing [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Julian E. Barnes and Steven Lee Myers Many of the videos are trying to appeal to right-wing voters with fake messages about President Biden, experts say. Last month, a [...]

Many of the videos are trying to appeal to right-wing voters with fake messages about President Biden, experts say. Last month, a video began circulating on social media purporting to [...]

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 [...]

The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation. Two [...]

The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation. Two [...]

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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

Russian narratives served to deflect attention from the failure to prevent the deadly attack while rallying the country behind the war in Ukraine. Even before the deadly toll of the [...]

Byline: Steven Lee Myers A young man calling himself Mohamed al-Alawi appeared in a YouTube video in August. He described himself as an investigative journalist in Egypt with a big [...]

A young man calling himself Mohamed al-Alawi appeared in a YouTube video in August. He described himself as an investigative journalist in Egypt with a big scoop: The mother-in-law of [...]

Byline: Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught [...]

A raíz de los disturbios en el Capitolio el 6 de enero de 2021, se generó una corriente en Washington para frenar la avalancha de mentiras que había alimentado el [...]

In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fueled the assault [...]

Con nombres como D. C. Weekly, New York News Daily y Chicago Chronicle, estos nuevos sitios de noticias falsas buscan dar la impresión de ser medios locales. En las últimas [...]

Byline: Steven Lee Myers The fake news organizations, experts say, represent a technological leap in the Kremlin's efforts to spread false and misleading narratives. Into the depleted field of journalism [...]

The fake news organizations, experts say, represent a technological leap in the Kremlin's efforts to spread false and misleading narratives. Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful [...]

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 [...]

Este año, cerca de la mitad de la población mundial votará en elecciones importantes. Al mismo tiempo, las falsas narrativas y las teorías de la conspiración se han convertido en [...]