A new video released by BuzzFeed appears to show former president Barack Obama calling President Donald Trump "a total and complete dips--- " among other outlandish statements — but as with many things online, it's not what it seems.

It was hard to avoid seeing the video posted last week showing local news stations reciting a "must-run" script about fake news from their parent company, Sinclair broadcasting, in eerie synchrony.

The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint.

The research finds demographics alone didn't explain 2012 Obama voters who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton. Fake news did, too.

Malaysia’s government proposed new legislation Monday to outlaw fake news and punish offenders with a 10-year jail sentence, a move slammed as an attempt to silence dissent ahead of a general election. Prime Minister Najib Razak has been dogged by a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal involving an indebted state fund, and rights activists fear the new law could be used to criminalize news reports and critical opinions on government misconduct.

Singapore intends to treat fake news with the same comprehensive approach as it does illicit drugs while allowing space for a “robust” discourse, according to a cabinet minister involved in discussions on new regulations. Janil Puthucheary, senior minister of state for communications and information and a member of the committee, said in an interview Monday he favored an integrated approach similar to the one Singapore uses against drugs.

The statistics are shocking. A Russian troll farm created false anti-Clinton stories and distributed them on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. As many as 126 million Facebook users may have encountered at least one piece of Russian propaganda; Russian tweets received as many as 288 million views. The Russians, just like Trump's campaign itself, leveraged the adtech infrastructure developed by social media companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to identify and target those most receptive to their lies and provocations.

“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it,” Jonathan Swift once wrote. It was hyperbole three centuries ago. But it is a factual description of social media, according to an ambitious and first-of-its-kind study published Thursday in Science. The massive new study analyzes every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitter’s existence—some 126,000 stories, tweeted by 3 million users, over more than 10 years—and finds that the truth simply cannot compete with hoax and rumor.

Researchers identify a major risk factor for pernicious effects of misinformation

Trump is already tweeting about it.

A new national security communications unit has echoes of the past, when the government tried to weaponise information, with mixed results. By Dan Lomas.

Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned fake news as satanic, saying journalists and social media users should shun and unmask manipulative “snake tactics” that foment division to serve political and economic interests.

A Michigan man was arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot and kill CNN employees, WGCL-TV reported Monday.

"2017 has been a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news." - GOP

Donald Trump gave the broadcaster CNN four of his "fake news" awards on Wednesday as he used the gimmick to escalate his attacks on media. The US president singled out The New York Times twice while the broadcaster ABC and the magazines Time and Newsweek were each mentioned once. Claims of "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia - a topic which has overshadowed the presidency and is being investigated by a special counsel - was also named.

An alarming number for an alarming time.

Find out if you kept your grip on reality after the year we’ve had. By Jane Lytvynenko.

The way reporters are responding to a dishonest White House is not enhancing their credibility. By Ramesh Ponnuru.

New research suggests that higher intelligence can act as a buffer against fake news. The study, published in the scientific journal Intelligence, found that some people are better at revising their attitude after learning that information they received was false.

Facebook Inc. will show people which Russian propaganda pages or accounts they’ve followed and liked on the social network, responding to a request from Congress to address manipulation and meddling during the 2016 presidential election.