• Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

    Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

    Oct 07, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    ... the op-ed pages of these papers. Dr. Peter Hotez: I mean, I think a point of the book is too often we call it misinformation or infodemic, like it's random junk out there on the Internet. It's not. It's organized, it's deliberate, it's politically ...

  • Oregon governor calls Trump's actions 'an abuse of power and threat to our democracy'

    Oregon governor calls Trump's actions 'an abuse of power and threat to our democracy'

    Oct 06, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... of Portland. We are a beautiful, vibrant, safe city. Portland is doing well. And I believe he had at the time and continues to have misinformation, a very old, outdated viewpoint about what is happening in Portland. The protests that are happening outside of the ICE facility are confined to ...

  • A student 'womb service' works covertly to deliver contraception at a Catholic college

    A student 'womb service' works covertly to deliver contraception at a Catholic college

    Oct 01, 2025 09:45 PM EDT

    ... a Catholic school in Chicago, prohibits distribution of any kind of birth control on its campus. WATCH: Examining the facts about contraceptives as birth control misinformation spreads online To get around that, a student group runs a covert contraceptive delivery network called "the womb service." The group was once the ...

  • WATCH: Day 3 of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly

    WATCH: Day 3 of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly

    Sep 24, 2025 09:32 PM EDT

    ... world. Tech companies have raced to develop better AI systems even as experts warn of its risks, including existential threats like engineered pandemics, large-scale misinformation or rogue AIs running out of control, and call for safeguards. The U.N.'s adoption of a new governance architecture is the latest ...

  • Trump pushes Bondi to pursue cases against his foes as he ramps up retribution campaign

    Trump pushes Bondi to pursue cases against his foes as he ramps up retribution campaign

    Sep 21, 2025 11:04 PM EDT

    ... comments were “truly sick” and that his agency has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said. "These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or ...

  • California bans face coverings for most law enforcement officers during operations

    California bans face coverings for most law enforcement officers during operations

    Sep 21, 2025 01:01 AM EDT

    “There’s an assertion that somehow there is an exponential increase in assaults on officers, but they will not provide the data,” he said. “All they have provided is misinformation and misdirection.” Ban applies to various face coverings, includes some exceptions The new law prohibits neck gaiters, ski masks ...

  • What to know about Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC

    What to know about Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC

    Sep 19, 2025 02:06 PM EDT

    ... s comments about Kirk's death “truly sick” and said his agency has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and Disney accountable for spreading misinformation. Kirk, a top conservative podcaster, was shot and killed last week at an appearance on a college campus in Utah. Kimmel made several remarks ...

  • Reactions pour in about ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show

    Reactions pour in about ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show

    Sep 18, 2025 04:06 PM EDT

    ... s comments “truly sick” and said his agency had a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation. There was no immediate comment from Kimmel, whose contract is up in May 2026. In its statement announcing the suspension, ABC didn’t cite ...

  • A look into the online subcultures tied to Charlie Kirk’s accused killer

    A look into the online subcultures tied to Charlie Kirk’s accused killer

    Sep 16, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... the general chaos of the modern social media age. So we have seen conspiracy theories. We have seen A.I. play a prominent role in misinformation. It is complete chaos. And that is only exacerbated by the way that the Trump administration and the FBI have been handling this in ...

  • Why critics are alarmed about the influence of PragerU's educational videos

    Why critics are alarmed about the influence of PragerU's educational videos

    Sep 15, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    Woman: Am I saying racist cops don't exist? Of course not. But I would say this. Blacks have a lot more to fear from Black criminals than from the police. Jonathan Zimmerman: There's been a little bit of misinformation about the Prager videos, because a lot of people ...