Google says it is "not happy" that its search results displayed false information about Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, who killed 26 people. The search engine displayed a carousel of posts "popular on Twitter" that contained false stories that Kelley was a Muslim and a left-wing extremist. Google's Danny Sullivan said the tweets were promoted by the site's "ranking algorithm", which would be improved.

Two Bay Area college students may have found a way to expose fake accounts on Twitter known as bots. From their apartment just off the Cal campus Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte or RoBhat Labs believe they have cracked the code that’s been bedeviling social media companies and Congress — fake news and bots.

Diplomatic spats in the Middle East are hardly rare. But the conflict that started this summer between Qatar and some of its Arab neighbors may be unique. It’s the first major geopolitical crisis to have been sparked by a computer hack, and was nearly the first “fake news” war to transform into a physical conflict. And far as anyone can tell, the fake news had a target audience of approximately one: US president Donald Trump. In interviews and documentation provided to Quartz, the Qatari government has outlined its version of the events that led to the crisis in detail for the first time.

The original photo appears to be of Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett doing a post-game victory dance with his teammates in the locker room in 2015.

On a Tuesday morning in June 2016, Nathan Brown, a reporter for The Times-News, the local paper in Twin Falls, Idaho, strolled into the office and cleared off a spot for his coffee cup amid the documents and notebooks piled on his desk. Brown, 32, started his career at a paper in upstate New York, where he grew up, and looks the part of a local reporter, clad in a fresh oxford and khakis that tend to become disheveled over the course of his long days.

A writer who became notorious for peddling "fake news" during the 2016 US election campaign has died at 38. Paul Horner was found dead in his bed in Laveen, Arizona, on 18 September, after a suspected drug overdose, officials said. Horner, who published fraudulent articles on Facebook and websites he set up, claimed he was the reason Donald Trump was elected in November.

At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.

People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to stand behind inaccurate beliefs, a new study suggests. And those who rely on concrete evidence to form their beliefs are less likely to have misperceptions about high-profile scientific and political issues, said Kelly Garrett, the lead researcher and a professor of communication at The Ohio State University.

There's a whole industry dedicated to producing fake US news in Macedonia – and it's getting ready for 2020

The president of the United States – the man who just yesterday said, “When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts” – fired out a tweet apparently in response to the dreadful terror attack in Barcelona, Spain.

Fake news, it's a big deal on Facebook, and we might just be getting more of it in the form of videos. Facebook recently bought a startup with an expertise in video manipulation, Deutsche Startups reported. The German-based startup Fayteq has software that is able to remove or add objects in videos, even live ones, and add effects to them.

One morning in November, Simon Hegelich, a professor of political science at the Technical University of Munich, was surprised to get an urgent invitation from the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who wanted to hear more about his research on the manipulation of voter sentiment. Less than two weeks earlier, the U.S. elections had ended in victory for Donald Trump, and the post-mortems were full of buzzwords the Chancellor urgently needed to understand...

There’s a real person behind the pro-Trump account thanked by the president—but her online name, her photo, and her 146,000 followers are all lies.

Automated accounts are being programmed to spread fake news, according to the first systematic study of the way online misinformation spreads

The revelation that Fox News made contact with the White House over a false and malicious story could spell trouble for the network – and the president.

It’s not clear who created the image or why, but it is displayed prominently at some of his properties.

A false report claiming a Russian warplane took out the communications systems of an American warship spread with alarming ease.

A pro-Trump, anti-Trudeau rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday attracted only a small crowd of demonstrators protesting “against Trudope and his tyranny,” but that didn’t stop far-right website Breitbart from claiming that “a group of up to 5,000” had shown up. The rally, dubbed the “million Canadian march,” was advertised by organizer Mike Waine as a protest against M-103, a motion calling on the Canadian government to condemn Islamophobia; and as a call on the Governor General to remove Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from office.

Members of the House of Representative Committee on Science, Space & Technology—including representative Don Beyer, Jacky Rosen, Mark Takano, and a number of other Democrats—have signed and submitted a letter to President Trump expressing concern over the President's methods of receiving scientific information. The letter states that by failing to appoint a qualified director to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy or adequately staff the department....

Inside the growing influence of a mysterious anti-Trump website. By Pamela Engel.