Moving from innocuous examples, consider the spread of misinformation on social media. Misinformation is false information ...

Accusations of sexual violence have been levelled at racialised groups for ­hundreds of years. Manufactured panics about the ...

One way to combat harmful contagion is to draw on an idea first used in the 1960s called pre-bunking. The idea is to train people to practice skills to spot and resist misinformation and ...

Let the audience do the work.” He found constraint opened doors. “You can make humor if you set very tight parameters,” he ...

Analysts said a 16-day gap in meddling posts about British politics offered direct evidence of state-sponsored interference ...

A new play tells the story of RBS’s rapid expansion and dramatic collapse. Lionel Barber, who began his career as a reporter ...

Cyabra says 1,300 fake profiles reached 200 million people with posts about Brexit, Scottish independence and more, but ...

I study the ways in which individual behavior is influenced by prevailing social norms ... oversize boots based on those worn by a 1952 Japanese cartoon character. Her initial skepticism quickly faded ...

Anonymous shadow accounts reveal how identity online is fragmented, shifting between performance and impulse. Anonymity can be both liberating and dangerous, offering refuge, but also eroding empathy.

Following Israel’s military operation against Iran on June 13, the Tel Aviv-based Cyabra found a pattern of disinformation ...