As national elections approach, voters are being targeted with fake news on WhatsApp.

The U.S. government is worried the same kind of interference that made its way into the 2016 presidential campaign could affect the 2020 census. As a result, the Census Bureau is asking for help from technology and social media giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter to fight any misinformation campaigns that might target the once-a-decade […]

Encyclopedia Britannica has a history of being pretty revolutionary.

Facebook and Google have pledged themselves to a pact formed by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. The “Contract for the Web” asks internet companies to fight fake news and uphold principles that protect privacy as a human right and promote access for all people. The tech firms say they aspire to […]

PolitiFact and four other partners have been fighting false information with Facebook. There's much more to do.

MIT research finds false stories often travel further and faster than real ones.

To combat fake ads and news, we need to study their effects more, says Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News Show.

The disinformation war is being waged online, but who's behind it?