Pentagon investigator admits to faking dozens of Top Secret security clearance background checks Exclusive: Nousheen Qureshi’s investigations for the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency ...

Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors Snopes.com's updated guide to the internet's clickbaiting, news-faking, social media exploiting dark side.

Gauge your reaction: Bad actors can craft fake headlines using evocative language to elicit an emotional response from the reader. Check other news outlets: What are your local news outlets reporting?

Consuming news on social media is often associated with "doom scrolling," where people spend excessive time online consuming ...

Fake news isn’t actually new – people have been making up news for centuries. Social media means it is easier for these stories to spread and this means it is a bigger problem for us.

“A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials,” Axelrod wrote on X. “This is the new world in which ...

The war on fake news has backfired, entrenching the systems it sought to dismantle and deepening public skepticism of information.

We found the number of “big lies” – also known as fake news – didn’t increase in 2023 compared to 2020. But we did spot more “small lies” this time. Here’s what to look out for in ...

An imposter video posing as a news report by South Africa’s public broadcaster falsely states that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has purchased a majority stake in South African mining ...

Stock market investments took a wild swing as the White House disavowed rumors that President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on his trade war.The Dow fell over 1,000 points just ...

As part of its broader fact-checking efforts, The Associated Press announced Thursday that it will work with Facebook to help identify and debunk trending "news" stories being shared online that are ...

The concerns about fake news and its impact on democracy were and remain well-founded.Disinformation erodes public trust, distorts reality, and weakens democratic systems.