Close on the heels of the World Health Organisation declaring monkeypox a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’, a post containing various dubious claims about the disease has gone ...

WASHINGTON – A war of words in the Nevada U.S. Senate race has resulted in independent fact checkers skewering Democrat incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican challenger Adam Laxalt for ...

The claim: Mugshot shows a serial killer ‘currently hunting’ Multiple social media users are warning of a serial killer that is allegedly active in several different communities across the count...

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 che...

This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the First Amendment “limited-purpose public figure” doctrine in the context of a charitable organization’s fundraising activities. The Court holds that cha...

In Texas, a county elections administrator and her two deputies have resigned, with at least one citing threats fueled by misinformation, as former President Donald Trump and his supporters conti...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against Andrew M. Middlebrooks and his...