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See what people are claiming online - rumors, conspiracy theories, and questionable content.
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We collect stories that are spreading online - things like conspiracy theories, fake videos, and propaganda - so you can see what's being said and make up your own mind about what's real.
Propaganda
Agenda-pushing content
Rumor
Unverified theories
Deepfake
AI-generated fakes
Influence Ops
Organized campaigns
Did Anthony Edwards donate $514K game check to ICE?
There's no record of the Minnesota Timberwolves star announcing such a donation.
Social Media - Social media posts misidentify Alex Pretti shooter as Evan Kilgore
Evan Kilgore is one of the Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
The connection between the spread of misinformation, time of day, and individual user activity patterns
Social media manipulation poses a significant threat to cognitive autonomy and unbiased opinion formation. Prior literature explored the relationship between online activity and emotional state, cognitive resources, sunlight and weather. However, a limited understanding exists regarding the role of time of day in content spread and the impact of user activity patterns on susceptibility to mis- and disinformation. This work uncovers a strong correlation between user activity patterns and the t...
Robust Fake News Detection using Large Language Models under Adversarial Sentiment Attacks
Misinformation and fake news have become a pressing societal challenge, driving the need for reliable automated detection methods. Prior research has highlighted sentiment as an important signal in fake news detection, either by analyzing which sentiments are associated with fake news or by using sentiment and emotion features for classification. However, this poses a vulnerability since adversaries can manipulate sentiment to evade detectors especially with the advent of large language model...
Analysing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Fight Large-Scale Digital Influence Operations
Crime as a Service (CaaS) has evolved from isolated criminal incidents to a broad spectrum of illicit activities, including social media manipulation, foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), and the sale of disinformation toolkits. This article analyses how threat actors exploit specialised infrastructures ranging from proxy and VPN services to AI-driven generative models to orchestrate large-scale opinion manipulation. Moreover, it discusses how these malicious operations m...
Benny Johnson - Vacant California lot was temporary shelter for homeless registered voters, not a sign of fraud
Video showing a vacant lot at a Venice, California, address where 26 voters were registered exposes voter fraud.
Did the US give Greenland back to Denmark? Trump omits history, invokes Iceland in Davos speech
Did US own Greenland? Fact-checking Trump’s Davos speech
Fact-checking Donald Trump's Davos speech on Greenland, US economy
Fact-checking Donald Trump's Davos speech
AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats: A Survey of Emerging Risks and Defensive Strategies
Artificial Intelligence's dual-use nature is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape, introducing new threats across four main categories: deepfakes and synthetic media, adversarial AI attacks, automated malware, and AI-powered social engineering. This paper aims to analyze emerging risks, attack mechanisms, and defense shortcomings related to AI in cybersecurity. We introduce a comparative taxonomy connecting AI capabilities with threat modalities and defenses, review over 70 academic an...
When Is Self-Disclosure Optimal? Incentives and Governance of AI-Generated Content
Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) is reshaping content creation on digital platforms by reducing production costs and enabling scalable output of varying quality. In response, platforms have begun adopting disclosure policies that require creators to label AI-generated content, often supported by imperfect detection and penalties for non-compliance. This paper develops a formal model to study the economic implications of such disclosure regimes. We compare a non-disclosure benchmark...
MultiCaption: Detecting disinformation using multilingual visual claims
Online disinformation poses an escalating threat to society, driven increasingly by the rapid spread of misleading content across both multimedia and multilingual platforms. While automated fact-checking methods have advanced in recent years, their effectiveness remains constrained by the scarcity of datasets that reflect these real-world complexities. To address this gap, we first present MultiCaption, a new dataset specifically designed for detecting contradictions in visual claims. Pairs o...
The Paradigm Shift: A Comprehensive Survey on Large Vision Language Models for Multimodal Fake News Detection
In recent years, the rapid evolution of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has driven a paradigm shift in multimodal fake news detection (MFND), transforming it from traditional feature-engineering approaches to unified, end-to-end multimodal reasoning frameworks. Early methods primarily relied on shallow fusion techniques to capture correlations between text and images, but they struggled with high-level semantic understanding and complex cross-modal interactions. The emergence of LVLMs ha...
DarkGram: A Large-Scale Analysis of Cybercriminal Activity Channels on Telegram
We present the first large-scale analysis of 339 cybercriminal activity channels (CACs). Followed by over 23.8 million users, these channels share a wide array of malicious and unethical content with their subscribers, including compromised credentials, pirated software and media, social media manipulation tools, and blackhat hacking resources such as malware, exploit kits, and social engineering scams. To evaluate these channels, we developed DarkGram, a BERT-based framework that automatical...
US permanent envoy to NATO optimistic about prospects for peaceful settlement in Ukraine
It's going to take both sides to agree to it, says Matthew Whitaker
Finding a Private Knowledgebase That Actually Works
Level up your workflow! Do you ever feel like there’s a mountain of information you’d love to master, but you have no way to cram it all into your brain? You’re not alone. I’ve been fascinated by Personal Knowledge‑Management (PKM) tools for years, trying to find a system that is […] The post Finding a Private Knowledgebase That Actually Works appeared first on Activist Post .
US does not want Libya scenario to repeat in Iran — envoy to UN
United States are going to have to be judicious in ways they use their power, Matthew Whitaker said
Census Data Signals Deep Trouble for Democrats After 2030
Census Data Signals Deep Trouble for Democrats After 2030 Democrats are staring down a demographic nightmare that could keep them out of power for years. Fresh Census Bureau estimates for 2025 paint a grim picture for the party. While red states are growing with new residents, blue states are losing population. As a result, experts predict that House seats and Electoral College votes will shift toward GOP turf after the 2030 Census. Jonathan Cervas, a redistricting and apportionment expert at...
Iran – Socrates & Geopolitics
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you warned that Iran would face a crisis in February 2026. You also said Iran would enter a period of extreme conflict with the turning point in 2024. Now we have ships moving to Iran. Socrates has been showing a sharp rise in volatility beginning in February into […] The post Iran – Socrates & Geopolitics appeared first on Activist Post .
Russian Warriors Smash Ukrainian Reserves Heading Towards Liberated Petrovka in Zaporozhye
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video on Saturday showing footage of the fighting for the settlement of Petrovka in the Zaporozhye region.
Brooch from Audrey Hepburn's collection sells for more than €355,000 at Paris auction
The estimated price of the piece was €40,000-60,000