Social media has become our digital heartbeat, a place where we scroll, like, and share our lives. But while you're busy ...
Social media firms have been accused of failing to crack down on political disinformation and hate as campaigning heats up ...
Last month, a woman lay in a hospital bed with failing organs — all likely from uncontrolled diabetes. She'd managed her disease with Facebook advice instead of medicine. It nearly cost her everything ...
Hillary Clinton said in remarks Tuesday that AI and social media have “broken” how information spreads. “Our information ecosystem is broken,” Clinton said at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York ...
Rumour had it that a Muslim girl had been kidnapped and a Hindu temple had sent masked thugs into combat. Add in local fury over an India-Pakistan cricket match, and Hindu and Muslim men were soon ...
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Editorial: Misinformation reigns on social media

After author and outspoken Trump critic Stephen King shared two lies to his millions of followers, it's worth examining how social media facilitates falsehoods.
If the latest statistics are correct, chances are nine out of the 10 people reading this article right now have a social media profile in some capacity. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn—heck, if you have a ...
An international group of researchers, led by the University of Sheffield in England, is building a lie detector to help sort out fact from fiction on social media. “There was a suggestion after the ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government responded to escalating violent protests over a ban on popular social media platforms with deadly force. The public outrage over the ban and the deaths of 19 ...