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...
23 May, 2023, 11.39 PM IST
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.
12 Jan, 2023, 07.45 PM IST
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...
13 Oct, 2022, 08.22 AM IST
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.
20 Sep, 2022, 12.05 AM IST
From flat-Earth videos to conspiracy theories: A study on the spread of disinformation onlineWhile news articles can be fact-checked, personal beliefs cannot.
28 Jun, 2022, 07.19 PM IST
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.
26 Mar, 2021, 05.28 PM IST
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...
21 Feb, 2021, 11.24 AM IST
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...
15 Feb, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
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...
23 Jan, 2021, 10.13 PM IST
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.
22 Jan, 2021, 10.19 AM IST
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...
20 Jan, 2021, 06.34 PM IST
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...
09 Jan, 2021, 08.54 PM IST
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 ...
09 Jan, 2021, 08.24 AM IST
Facebook bans celebrity chef Pete Evans for spreading coronavirus conspiracy theoriesThe former chef's page on Instagram with 278,000 followers is still active.
24 Dec, 2020, 11.00 AM IST
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...
31 Oct, 2020, 06.24 PM IST
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 ...
26 Oct, 2020, 04.28 PM IST
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...
18 Oct, 2020, 04.21 PM IST