Tag: Rumors and Misinformation

The video falsely claiming that the United States Agency for International Development paid Ben Stiller, Angelina Jolie and other actors ...

President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive coverage ...

If you’re among the millions of people who have downloaded DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial ...

It was a spasm of tragedy on a remote Pacific island that only a few months later was overshadowed by ...

At Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings, beginning on Wednesday, senators are expected to question him closely about his controversial ...

In pediatricians’ offices across the country, doctors are increasingly confronting concerns from parents about vaccines that for decades have protected ...

Some of the posts are raw. Some are insightful, others wildly elaborate. Some are just plain wrong.TikTok, which may soon ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s health agencies, formally asked the Food and ...

A Russian organization linked to the Kremlin’s covert influence campaigns posted more than 8,000 political advertisements on Facebook despite European ...

Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there ...

Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small.Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, ...

While Republicans largely cheered Meta’s announcement on Tuesday that it would effectively end its fact-checking program, several tech watchdog groups ...

Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker — the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn ...