Consuming news on social media is often associated with "doom scrolling," where people spend excessive time online consuming ...

Draft legislation by India's tech hub state of Karnataka that would impose jail terms of up to seven years for spreading ...

And according to a new paper published in the journal PLoS ONE, someone who exhibits PSMU is also more likely to believe in—and share—fake news online, contributing to the rampant spread of ...

The urge to deny you’ve fallen for fake news is natural. No one likes to feel like a fool. But it means we’re in a logically impossible situation where everyone thinks other people are ...

An imposter video posing as a news report by South Africa’s public broadcaster falsely states that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has purchased a majority stake in South African mining ...

Happy Tuesday! Send news tips to: [email protected] A Russian fake news ring was struggling. Then it targeted USAID. Russian disinformation doesn’t always work. Out of 135 Kremlin-aligned ...