In a bid to fight back against mass online disinformation, an increasing number of fact-checking outlets are cropping up online. Some are integrated into traditional newsrooms, while others are ...
A circulating Facebook reel sharing registration links for a PCSO scholarship program is AI-generated, with links leading to phishing websites ...
AI analysis shows the image used in the video is 99% AI-generated and likely a deepfake, while the supposed registration links direct users to dubious sites requesting personal information ...
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Misinformation is nothing new. It has, however, become ubiquitous and, in some cases, more difficult and time-consuming than ever to ...
A claim that Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fraudulently redeemed her deceased grandmother’s retirement benefit first emerged on a website that says it publishes satirical and ...
A rumor that users circulated online in March 2025 claimed tech billionaire Elon Musk announced he acquired the MSNBC cable news network for $900 million. Musk, an adviser to Republican U.S. President ...
A Cleveland Clinic web page describing myocarditis survival rates was misrepresented online as news that millions who received COVID-19 vaccines were about to die. A spokesperson for the Cleveland ...
Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation. Earlier this month, X enabled users to ...
(CNN) — President Donald Trump over the weekend called for the prosecution of music superstar Beyoncé – based on something that did not actually happen. Trump claimed in a social media post that ...
The U.S. Supreme Court denied review of a lawsuit filed against Meta and the Poynter Institute, PolitiFact’s parent organization, by Children’s Health Defense, a legal advocacy group founded by Robert ...