Like elsewhere across the globe, misinformation about Covid-19 in Africa has spread quickly online as the pandemic progresses through different stages. AFP Fact Check has been debunking false cla...

In September, Donald Trump-endorsed congressional candidate Joe Kent told The Dispatch that “election integrity” is his “number one” campaign issue in his bid to unseat six-term GOP Rep. Jaime He...

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New Delhi: The Union government on Monday, April 25, blocked 16 YouTube channels, including six operating from Pakistan, and a Facebook account for spreading disinformation related to India’s nat...

Facebook posts shared hundreds of times ahead of the Philippine presidential elections claim the government's law office said top job hopeful Vice President Leni Robredo "handled zero cases" as a...

A decade ago, Twitter executives, including the chief executive, Dick Costolo, declared that the social media site was the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party.” The stance meant Twitter wo...

By Daniel Dale, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy keeps repeating a false claim about Attorney General Merrick Garland. In an interview on Fox last Wednesday, McCarthy said that if Republi...

This is the second and final instalment of our short series on warranty claims which looks at the recent decision of the English High Court in MDW Holdings Ltd v Norvill [2021] EWHC 1135 (Ch). In...

Amidst Rumours of Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan donating money for the rehabilitation of illegal settlements brought down by the anti-encroachment drive, propaganda website Alt News co-founder M...