In April 2022, Nick Sawyer sat down before a committee of the California State Assembly to argue for legislation to help limit the spread of COVID falsehoods. Sawyer, an emergency-room physician, had ...

"Disinformation" is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States—a label so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are ...

Many countries face general elections this year. Political campaigning will include misleading and even false information. Just days ago, it was reported that a robocall impersonating U.S. president ...

The Center for Countering Disinformation explained the goal of Russia’s new campaign Russian propaganda has launched a new wave of disinformation about the alleged forced mobilization of women in ...

A group of leading Black organizations are warning media and voters of disinformation targeting Black Americans ahead of November’s critical election. In a letter led by Onyx Impact, a nonprofit ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan—Misleading and false climate content surging through social media and other channels threatens the COP29 climate talks by undermining science-based policy decisions, United Nations ...

In the course of 2024, an estimated four billion people—half the world’s population—will go to the polls in eighty-three elections. Leading experts in global security have warned that disinformation ...

Disinformation is false or misleading content that is disseminated with the intention of deceiving or seeking economic or political gains. It differs from misinformation, which is false or misleading ...

Nearly eight years after Russian operatives attempted to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, U.S. democracy has become even less safe, the country’s information environment more polluted ...

Following a fatal stabbing, false claims from far-right groups have incited attacks on the Muslim community across the country. Riot police clash with anti-migration protesters outside of the Holiday ...