How conservative ‘supersharers’ drove fake news in the 2016 election
Silver lining: That means most people were not being inundated with fake news.
Opinion: WhatsApp skewed Brazilian election, showing social media’s danger to democracy
Brazil’s WhatsApp election scandal should be a wake-up call particularly for other developing world democracies.
Lawmakers want to know how ‘deepfake’ videos of real people could threaten national security
The rising capabilities of the technology are fueling concerns it could be used to make a bogus video, for example, of an American politician accepting a bribe or of a U.S. or an adversarial foreign leader warning of an impending…
How seeing a political logo can impair your understanding of facts
Political symbols have a sneaky influence on your brain, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania.
President Donald Trump met with the publisher of The New York Times to discuss media coverage of his administration, including his oft-repeated accusation that the media is the "enemy of the people."…
Science correspondent Miles O’Brien and series producer Cameron Hickey have been researching junk news on the internet since the election, uncovering important storylines close to home.
Facebook’s news feed algorithm learns in great detail what we like, and then strives to give us more of the same -- and it's that technology that can be taken advantage of to spread junk news like a virus. Science…
As the country was reacting to the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election, concerns soared about the problems of misinformation or so-called “Fake News” spreading across social media. To understand the scale and shape of a problem that was incredibly…
Trump tweeted Monday that it was funny to watch “Fake News Networks” criticizing Sinclair for being biased. The president singled out CNN and NBC.
