• How conspiracy theories spread after the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

    How conspiracy theories spread after the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

    Apr 27, 2026 10:14 PM EDT

    ... WATCH: Blanche, Patel and Pirro announce federal charges against accused Trump dinner gunman Emily Vraga, a professor at the University of Minnesota who studies political misinformation, said that sometimes more information is not necessarily better, especially in such a polarized time when people can pick and choose the facts they ...

  • Election officials sound alarm over political interference in midterms

    Election officials sound alarm over political interference in midterms

    Apr 22, 2026 10:25 PM EDT

    ... their own elections. Now what we see is the people that they have grown to trust have all left and Trump has put into place or the administration has put into place people who have in the past questioned the 2020 election results or even spread misinformation about that election.

  • WATCH: RFK Jr. testifies on Trump's HHS budget request before Senate committees

    WATCH: RFK Jr. testifies on Trump's HHS budget request before Senate committees

    Apr 22, 2026 12:37 PM EDT

    Ahead of Wednesday's hearings, experts said his handling of them could affect his chances at a pivotal moment of his reelection campaign and set the tone for how Congress oversees the nation's health agenda at a time of rampant distrust and misinformation. “He’s taken a risk showing ...

  • How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted?

    How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted?

    Apr 16, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    ... re seriously extreme. But I don't know anything about it. I don't want to know anything about it. But what they do is misinformation and disinformation. Liz Landers: But, Amna, many of the policies in Project 2025 have been tracked in the last year or so that the ...

  • Anthropic’s powerful new AI model raises concerns about high-tech risks

    Anthropic’s powerful new AI model raises concerns about high-tech risks

    Apr 09, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    ... people who work at these companies do legitimately believe that there are concerns that it could be used for cybersecurity, it could be used for misinformation, it could -- some people even believe that it could become so smart in the coming years that humans are challenged to keep it under ...

  • RFK Jr. says he's launching a podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick

    RFK Jr. says he's launching a podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick

    Apr 08, 2026 09:19 PM EDT

    ... promote themselves without facing as much pushback. Critics suggested the show would be used to spread falsehoods. It's "just another official channel to spread misinformation that will inject more dangerous conspiracy theories into the mainstream,” said Grace Silva, spokesperson for 314 Action, a left-leaning political action committee aimed ...

  • AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

    AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

    Apr 06, 2026 04:29 PM EDT

    ... authenticity, and the fact that you can associate a real person who is often quite experienced and quite deep on their beats … it builds more credibility,” she said. “We’re really trying to embrace that because I do think it’s vital when there is so much misinformation out there.”

  • Strikes kill high-level Iranian officials in another blow to country's leadership

    Strikes kill high-level Iranian officials in another blow to country's leadership

    Mar 17, 2026 10:55 PM EDT

    ... protest, writing to President Trump directly, saying -- quote -- "Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America first platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used ...

  • Americans are increasingly worried about voting, new poll shows

    Americans are increasingly worried about voting, new poll shows

    Mar 11, 2026 09:00 AM EDT

    While Americans are largely divided along partisan lines on the necessity and potential effect of new voting regulations, there’s one major area of agreement: artificial intelligence. According to the latest poll, 85% of Americans say it is likely that AI-generated political content will spread misinformation about November’s ...

  • New documentary 'Immutable' follows student debate team as they find their voices

    New documentary 'Immutable' follows student debate team as they find their voices

    Mar 06, 2026 11:20 PM EDT

    ... how to speak in front of any audience, get your own voice, how to do research, how to write, how to sort out information from misinformation and disinformation, because this is policy debate. And that means that every assertion you make has to be backed by a piece of evidence ...