On February 20, 2025, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Commercial Litigation Branch at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Michael Granston, emphasized using the False Claims Act (F...

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump peddled a false conspiracy theory that voters voicing anger toward Republican lawmakers at town hall events were being paid by Democrats. In recent weeks,...

(Image credit: Lloyd Fox / The Baltimore Sun / Tribune News Service / Getty Images) By The Week US Elon Musk is “trying to convince Americans that our Social Security system is overrun by massive ...

Epson has scored a major legal win in its fight against misleading advertising in the projector market. A court has ruled in favor of Epson in a lawsuit against Dr. J, an Amazon selling partner, a...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been a target of pro-Russian propaganda for years, but a fresh wave of accusations and defamation against him and his country is surging online. This la...

On 18 February 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in United States v. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., determining that “but-for” causation is the proper standard for Fal...

Russian propaganda outlets have circulated a video falsely attributed to the American news agency Bloomberg. The video claims that the Ukrainian delegation had to cover the costs of their visit to...

ChatGPT-4-o, Gemini, Claude, and other major Western chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine and other topics of interest to Russia, a study by news and information webs...

Colorado’s Republican members of Congress repeatedly spread false information about crime rates in Denver and Aurora as they lined up to question Denver Mayor Mike Johnston during a lengthy hearin...

AMIDST increasing efforts by fact-checking organizations globally to empower the public with information resilience skills, hoaxes, particularly those of celebrity death, continue to spread on Met...