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 ...

Fake Amazon and eBay sites are spiking ahead of Black Friday, using real logos, photos, and “too good to be true” prices to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever wonder whether those glowing five-star reviews you see for products sold online are real? It’s hard to know for sure. In fact, research by Fakespot, a website that analyzes online product reviews ...

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 ...

The FCC said the hackers appeared to have compromised improperly secured equipment made by the Swiss network audio company ...