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Did Trump stage assassination attempt during White House correspondents dinner? Trump shooting scare fuels conspiracy theory debateDid Trump stage assassination attempt during White House correspondents dinner? The question spread across social media after gunfire outsi...
Sound of Freedom movie: Controversies, allegations, and streaming future | ExplainedJim Caviezel headlines the unexpected "Sound of Freedom" box office success, now available on Amazon Prime Video. The film, which depicts t...
Why has 'Sound of Freedom's' addition to Amazon's Prime Video service sparked controversyIn the wake of "Sound of Freedom" landing on Amazon's Prime Video, the film's unexpected success in tackling child sex trafficking sparks h...
Fake AI photo of Pentagon blast briefly spooks marketsA falsified photograph of an explosion near the Pentagon spread widely on social media Monday morning, briefly sending US stocks lower in p...
Understanding the psychology of riots: 5 types of thought processes that trigger violenceResearch unravels 5 types of group thinking that lead to discrimination and violence against minorities.
Google allows Donald Trump's Truth Social in Play StoreGoogle said Truth Social has since been updated to comply with its policies barring objectionable posts, and has built in effective systems...
Why is ex-US president Donald Trump under fire for QAnon conspiracy theory? All you need to knowCriticism of Donald Trump's QAnon demonstration at an Ohio rally: "He has gone entirely mad," author Kurt Eichenwald twitted.
From flat-Earth videos to conspiracy theories: A study on the spread of disinformation onlineWhile news articles can be fact-checked, personal beliefs cannot.
New generation of angry & youthful hackers join the 'hacktivism' wave, adding to cyber-security woesThe new lot is upset about the role of tech companies in spreading propaganda.
View: Indian response to 'toolkit' is as comic as Greta Thunberg's folliesThe government says activists are using a “toolkit” to spread their message, making this sound like a dreaded instrument of sedition. Sorry...
Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID-19, China took leading roleA nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Resear...
Capitol attack reflects America's extremist evolution over the past few decadesRight-wing extremism has previously played out for the most part in isolated pockets of America and in its smaller cities. The deadly assau...
As Joe Biden takes oath of office, cracks appear in the Cult of QBut hold on before you think America’s far right had a collective cathartic moment of self-reckoning. There were still hold-outs.
Japanese Trump supporters rally in Tokyo ahead of Joe Biden's inaugurationAbout 120 people joined the march in central Tokyo, with participants waving American and Japanese flags and holding banners claiming Trump...
No surprise: Trump left many clues he wouldn't go quietlyThe culmination of all that came Wednesday when Trump supporters, exhorted by the president to go to the Capitol and ``fight like hell'' ag...
Twitter bans Michael Flynn, Sidney PowellTwitter has banned President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn and pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell as part of ...
Facebook bans celebrity chef Pete Evans for spreading coronavirus conspiracy theoriesThe former chef's page on Instagram with 278,000 followers is still active.
Ahead of U.S. election, Facebook suspends political and new group recommendationsFacebook's Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg referred to one of the changes during a Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying: "We have ta...
Meet the 'QAnon' caucus: Conspiracy buffs on path to U.S. CongressThe online conspiracy theory, known as QAnon, began in 2017 with anonymous web postings from "Q," posits that Trump is secretly fighting a ...
Facebook's long and halting fight against misinformationIn April 2017, Facebook publicly acknowledged that governments or other malicious non-state actors are using its social network to influenc...