Fake news — or articles, videos and social media posts containing false, half-true or misleading information — is a common issue today, and many people have been led to believe things that are ...

Setting a vampire — even a tiny one, as in “Abigail” — loose on the world is a messy affair, which got the IndieWire Craft team wondering less about stakes and more about modern special effects ...

A video claiming to show Haitian immigrants illegally voting for Kamala Harris in Georgia keeps getting shared as “news” all over X (formerly Twitter), even though it’s now been thoroughly debunked as ...

What are deepfakes and how can you spot them? A "deepfake" is a computer-generated image, voice or video of a person that depicts a non-existent person or alters the actions and words of a real person ...

Social media has become a life-changing tool in the search for missing people, but it has also become a breeding ground for scams. A new scheme on Facebook involves fake posts about missing children, ...

Scammers are misusing Google’s Nano Banana AI to forge PAN and Aadhaar cards, raising major concerns about document ...

Some 4.5 billion people worldwide, or almost 55 percent of the global population, have at least one account with one of the big players. And global internet users spend around two-and-a-half hours ...

This post was originally published at The Markup. It was copublished with CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics. Last Saturday, I was at a ...

It’s getting easier to create artificial intelligence videos and photos and harder to tell the real from the fake.

AI created videos and photos are getting harder to detect. Recently, billionaire Warren Buffett denounced deep fakes after videos that appear to feature his image and voice surfaced online. Now I know ...