After an election season dominated by conspiracy theories and false claims about voting, top election officials across the country say they already are bracing for what comes next.
A pro-China network of fake and impostor accounts found a global audience on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to mock the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the deadly riot in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is claiming he's unfamiliar with an extremist conspiracy theory whose adherents joined the violent assault on Congress and hunted for his...
Can I take painkillers before or after a COVID-19 vaccine?
It's best to avoid them, unless you routinely take them for a medical condition. Although the evidence is limited, some painkillers...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Ceally Smith spent a year down the rabbit hole of QAnon, devoting more and more time to researching and discussing the conspiracy theory online. Eventually it consumed her,...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
DETROIT (AP) — Casting his climate policy as a jobs plan, President Joe Biden left out important context and used fuzzy math when he announced sweeping new green initiatives that he says will...
DETROIT (AP) — Casting his climate policy as a jobs plan, President Joe Biden left out important context and used fuzzy math when he announced sweeping new green initiatives that he says will...
Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets.
The pilot program unveiled Monday, called Birdwatch, allows...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media have stoked concerns about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite rigorous trials indicating it is safe. A government spokesperson has raised the...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Wednesday that truth and democracy are under attack in America and he pledged to usher the post-truth era out of U.S. politics.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his final remarks as president, Donald Trump tried to take credit for accomplishments of his predecessor and even those to come under President Joe Biden.
On his way out, President Donald Trump claimed credit for things he didn't do and twisted his record on jobs, taxes, the pandemic and much more. Falsehoods suffused his farewell remarks to the...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Vaccines from the West, Russia or China? Or none at all? That dilemma faces nations in southeastern Europe, where coronavirus vaccination campaigns are off to a slow start...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House impeachment debate on Wednesday heard a distorted account of President Donald Trump's remarks to his supporters a week ago when he exhorted them to “fight like hell"...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is distorting how he responded to the chaos at the Capitol this week, falsely stating that he acted immediately to bring in the National Guard.
Ciudad de México (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pressed his hopeless case for overturning the election to a crowd of supporters Wednesday, fueling the grievances of a mob that then stormed the Capitol...
President Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia's secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election...
President Donald Trump put forth a dizzying array of fuzzy accounting and outright false claims in an extraordinary phone call to Georgia's secretary of state seeking a reversal of his election...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
Here’s a look at false and misleading claims circulating online as news about COVID-19 vaccines and uncertainty around coronavirus relief in the U.S. dominate headlines. None of these are legit,...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
Here's a look at false and misleading claims circulating as the United States rolled out the newly authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to some health care workers and others. None of these...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en las...
PARIS (AP) — Individuals linked to Russia and the French military used fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to wage a covert disinformation campaign in the Central African Republic ahead of...
CHICAGO (AP) — From speculation that the coronavirus was created in a lab to hoax cures, an overwhelming amount of false information clung to COVID-19 as it circled the globe in 2020....
MIAMI (AP) — The head of an electronic voting company being targeted by allies of President Donald Trump said baseless claims that it helped flip the 2020 election for Joe Biden threatens to...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Before dawn on Dec. 1, Leonardo de Carvalho Leal prepared to leave his family behind in the Brazilian city of Ponta Grossa, in Parana state. His mother overwhelmed him with...
A look at false and misleading claims circulating as the United States moves closer to approving a COVID-19 vaccine and distribution is underway in the United Kingdom. None of these are legit,...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump flooded his first postelection political rally with debunked conspiracy theories and audacious falsehoods Saturday as he claimed victory in an election he...
A look at false and misleading claims and videos circulating one month after the 2020 election and as COVID-19 cases surge. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social...
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Un resumen de las historias e imágenes más populares, pero completamente falsas de la semana. Ninguna de éstas es legítima, a pesar de que se compartieron ampliamente en...
The cellphone video shot in the dark by a woman in a parked car appeared to show something ominous: a man closing the doors of a white van and then rolling a wagon with a large box into a Detroit...