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Fervent and fake: High-glam AI avatars boost Trump ahead of midtermsClad in swimsuits or military fatigues, the blonde women lavish praise on President Donald Trump and tear into his rivals -- but these infl...
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a simple information system and accidentally changed the internet foreverIn 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a system at CERN to improve information sharing among scientists using hypertext links. This led to the i...
AI reshaping the battle over the narrative of Maduro's US captureSince the US captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in early January, pictures and videos chronicling the events have been crowded out b...
ET Soonicorns Summit 2025: From Madhusudan Kela to Rashmika Mandanna—why deepfakes are forcing founders to rethink ethics in the AI ageAt ET Soonicorns Summit 2025, a landmark panel—AI’s Ethical Crossroads—brings together leading voices to confront the rising threat of deep...
Weaponised storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaignsWhile artificial intelligence is making the problem worse, it is also becoming one of the most powerful tools to fight against such manipul...
How Russia, China and Iran are interfering in the US presidential electionForeign disinformation campaigns from Russia, China, and Iran in U.S. elections have become more advanced and difficult to trace. They targ...
Musk and friends are smothering the internet’s truth seekersDisinformation research groups in the US face challenges from lawsuits and probes, primarily by Republicans and Elon Musk. These legal acti...
Conspiracy theories take off after global IT crashFrom fearmongering about a looming "World War III" to false narratives linking a cabal of global elite to a cyberattack, a torrent of onlin...
Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AIStill smarting from being outmaneuvered on social media by Donald Trump and his allies in 2016, Democratic strategists said they are nevert...
Russian disinformation is about immigration. The real aim is to undercut Ukraine aidRussian disinformation efforts are targeting U.S. immigration and border security issues to sow division ahead of the 2024 election. Amplif...
Word war: In Russia-Ukraine war, information became a weaponThe online fight has played out on computer screens and smartphones around the globe as Russia used disinformation, propaganda and conspira...
India has the most fact checkers in the world: Irene Jay Liu, News Lab lead, APAC at GoogleLiu said that as journalists are at the frontline of fighting misinformation and that it was with this in mind that the Google News Initiat...
Russia using UN to spread propaganda, Western states say"Russia is once again attempting to use this council to launder its disinformation, spread its propaganda, and justify its unprovoked and b...
China amplifies unsupported Russian claim of Ukraine biolabsThe U.S. has been quick to refute Russia's conspiracy theory, and the United Nations has said it has received no information that would bac...
'Deltacron' likely result of lab error: ExpertsCypriot media reported the discovery Saturday, describing it as having "the genetic background of the Delta variant along with some of the ...
Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly boomingPrivate firms, straddling traditional marketing and the shadow world of geopolitical influence operations, are selling services once conduc...
China defends use of Twitter, Facebook in virus campaignWhen asked about the report, the Foreign Ministry's top spokesperson, Hua Chunying, didn't directly address the allegations about China's r...
COVID conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformationThe Pew Research Center found, for example, that one in three Americans believed the new coronavirus had been created in a lab; one in four...
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...
Facebook describes fake news as an 'existential threat'Beyond Fake News is the British public broadcaster's new international anti-disinformation initiative, looking at highlighting the problems...