Pointing out that someone else is wrong is a part of life. And journalists need to do this all the time—their job includes helping sort what's true from what's not. But what if people just don't like ...

Supported by Oxylabs’ Project 4β, the investigation exposed a coordinated cross-border scam network targeting victims of financial fraud with fake recovery offers. VILNIUS, Lithuania, May 5, 2026 – ...

The rumors began with a single tweet last October: A Twitter user in India posted an image of a Kurdish fighter, Rehana, he claimed had killed more than 100 ISIS fighters. Soon news outlets around the ...

Earlier this week, a picture that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a ...

Fake images and videos are the next targets of Facebook’s ongoing effort to fight misinformation. Videos and photos that users flag as potentially false will now filter into the dashboard that ...

The soul-searching began last week, as more and more cases emerged of established media outlets falling for false news on the Paris attacks. In a piece for First Draft News, Claire Wardle, research ...

If social networks and other platforms are to get a handle on disinformation, it’s not enough to know what it is — you have to know how people react to it. Researchers at MIT and Cornell have some ...

Facebook announced that it will now debunk common myths about climate change, further leaning into the arbiter of truth role that the company once renounced. The company said it plans to rely on ...

Even when a source of information is known to be unreliable, research shows, many people will start to believe a claim if it is repeated often enough. That’s why it’s so important to stop ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania, May 5, 2026 – Debunk.org, an independent research organization focused on disinformation, fraud, and online manipulation, has uncovered a large-scale scam network operating across ...