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Farhad Souzanchi — an Iranian fact-checker who goes by a pseudonym out of fear for his family’s safety — hasn’t talked to his mother since the war broke out. “I communicate with her through a friend ...

Maryland election officials are mailing replacement ballots to voters after a vendor error led to some voters receiving a ...

“Online scams, phishing attempts, and fraudulent schemes have grown in both volume and sophistication, creating a new front in the war on falsehoods.” The field of fact-checking is not static; it ...

A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that “Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods [has] failed to make a dent.” The claim would fail a ...

The Food and Drug Administration in recent months has approved a small number of drugs quite quickly under a new expedited ...

As social media platforms increasingly lean on artificial intelligence to spot misinformation, new research suggests those tools don’t work equally well for everyone. In two large online experiments ...