The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It's cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda. In 2014, Russia flooded the internet with fake ...

In one-month from mid-December 2025 and mid-January 2026, The Daily Star documented 220 cases of disinformation circulated by various party-aligned actors. Entities that appear to ...

The Philippines reveals democracy's digital paradox. The Marcos administration, which rose to power through disinformation campaigns, now attempts to counter pro-Duterte disinformation networks using ...

We all support free speech – or say we do, anyway. A poll last year found that 93 percent of Americans consider the First Amendment vital. But what do we think about misinformation and intentional ...

As Bangladesh nears its 13th national parliamentary elections, social media will shape public opinion, but false and misleading content may spread just as fast. This guide shows quick ways to verify ...

RCP White House reporter Phil Wegmann asked at Wednesday's briefing about The Intercept reporting that Facebook has set up a process by which the Department of Homeland Security can flag posts ...

Meanwhile, for weeks now, we have seen numerous members of the press coming out with wildly farcical claims in regards to the abortion debate. Many journalists have been making comments that ...

The first batch of reports by tech giants, adtech entities and others on how they’re tackling online disinformation in the European Union since the bloc unveiled a strengthened version of its Code of ...

I thought I might have seen the last of classic disinformation screeds when I read the letter to the editor a while back painting Sen. Joseph McCarthy as an American hero. Any intellectually honest ...

Nina Jankowicz is the director of the new Disinformation Governance Board for the Department of Homeland Security. U.S.Embassy/A.Slabihoud If you were trying to ...

Disinformation could keep millions of voters of color out of the midterms. Disinformation is "becoming endemic. It's becoming part of day-to-day life," one expert told USA TODAY. "It's so much easier ...

Scott Simon speaks with Harvard's Joan Donovan about the manipulation of videos and images from the Russia-Ukraine conflict on social media and how to identify propaganda. The onslaught of images, ...