Politicians are increasingly blaming artificial intelligence to dodge accountability for embarrassing situations ...

We were curious how a particular fake news article breaks out from one website and becomes a popular trending topic on Facebook or Twitter, for example. And we discovered one of the reasons is fraud.

The worry remains that if we don’t educate everyone on how to use social media responsibly, fake news will continue to spread, causing governments to crumble.

But in addition to its use as a pithy punchline for anti-media trolls, fake news has been weaponized by politicians over the past year to discredit media reports that they dislike.

Bad Info: Fake News, Manipulated Photographs, and Social Media Influencers focuses on media/information literacy and the problem of mis/dis-information. The project includes a series of exhibitions ...

Another way to spot fake news on social media is the use of "sensational headlines," while photos can often be presented out of context.

The funny thing about fake news is how mind-numbingly boring it can be. Not the fakes themselves — they’re constructed to be catnip clickbait to stoke the fires of rage of their intended ...

Over the past two years, media organizations have often framed new developments related or adjacent to online misinformation as fake news. While it makes for a good headline, the term has since ...

Obviously “fake” news, false stories, deliberately created to misinform, are only part of the problem. Another is a more familiar tactic for the “traditional” media: using verifiable facts ...