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fake news

Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?

By Kamya Yadav, Ulaş Erdoğdu, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro, Alicia Wanless | Disruptive Technologies

Parthenon in Athens, undergoing partial restoration

What science and democracy have in common: us, hopefully

By Adam Sobel | Columnists, Opinion

Vladimir Putin at the Almazov National Medical Research Centre in St. Petersburg, 2017.

Coronavirus in Russia: How Putin’s disinformation efforts could backfire at home

By Judy Twigg | Biosecurity

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.

The fight over social media’s potent political ads just got more interesting

By Justin Sherman | Disruptive Technologies

The latest from AI research: automated fake news trolls

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia

Garlin Gilchrist, executive director of the University of Michigan’s new Center for Social Media Responsibility

Garlin Gilchrist: Fighting fake news and the information apocalypse

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews