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From Payne Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University where she teaches to the solemn halls of the Federal Election Commission, Lisa Fazio takes her eye-opening presentation on disinformation ...

A quote shared by that old high school friend which isn't quite accurate. A social media post with a photo taken out of context. Misinformation, and disinformation*, comes for everybody. Yes, that ...

In 2020, I witnessed an online influence campaign so devious that I could not stop thinking about it—­in fact, it inspired me to begin researching my book, Stories Are Weapons, from which this essay ...

Barbara McQuade teaches law at the University of Michigan, but her classroom extends far beyond the stately Tudor Gothic buildings of the Law Quad on the Ann Arbor campus. “I am now considering myself ...

FILE - A man records video of Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate for president who won the first round of presidential elections, speaking to media outside a closed voting station after Romania ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — (AP) — Romanians are confronting a deluge of online disinformation ahead of a fraught presidential election redo next week, including ominous claims that the NATO member country ...