There's big money to be made in misinformation. Two college grads are laughing all the way to the bank

In the UK, a judge has made the rare decision to publicly identify a 17-year-old boy accused of murdering three girls.

Presenter: Wasim Khaled, Co-founder and CEO, Blackbird.AI

Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research, Google Interviewer: Jeremy Kahn, Fortune

A Manitoba doctor accused of defrauding another physician out of $160,000 by faking cancer was expelled from residency. A CBC News investigation tracked her down in B.C., where she has been advertising services as a medical doctor, which...

A civics educator in Richmond is raising concerns over election interference in his community. On Friday, an interim report suggested foreign interference in 2021 may have cost a candidate his seat. The educator says a public registry...

India elections and the influence of social media

News 12 Connecticut’s Justin DeVellis spoke with an infectious disease expert from Yale on the measles outbreak.

An elite teen squad of fact checkers with the help of media literacy organizations are learning to suss out scams and fake information on TikTok, making videos to teach other teens about misinformation online.

Linda Moore, president and CEO of Technet, explains why the U.S. should be a leader in A.I., plus why deepfakes and misinformation could be a concern during the election season.

Hundreds of technology and artificial intelligence experts are urging governments globally to take immediate action against deepfakes — AI-generated voices, images, and videos of people — which they say are an ongoing threat to society...

A report from French authorities outlined a Russian disinformation network including at least 193 sites.

The entries show Bowman shared political and personal poems and short essays on an online journal, relentless-strongback.blogspot.com through 2014.

The Montreal professor and computer scientist known internationally as a "Godfather" of artificial intelligence shares his biggest AI-related concerns for 2024.

Concerned for humanity’s future, AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio is raising alarms about what could happen in 2024, while he urges Canada to build $1-billion AI supercomputer.

The IT giant pulled the advertisements following a report by the left-leaning non-profit, Media Matters, that showed advert placement next to content promoting Nazi ideology.

The EU's digital rights chief Thierry Breton gave X, formerly Twitter, 24 hours to outline how the platform would meet the bloc's new digital rules.

The Israel-Hamas war has underscored how the platform now known as X has become not only unreliable but is actively promoting falsehoods.

A growing number of drag storytime events for children are becoming the target of angry protests and hate. The National’s Anya Zoledziowski goes to find out what’s behind the hostility and why it’s getting worse.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has launched a text-based social media platform meant to compete with Twitter called Threads. It has already garnered millions of users on its first day but many critics say it still...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Thursday it would soon begin to block some Canadian users from accessing or posting news content on either platform. The move comes in reaction to the federal government's Online...

Gallery is a blood test that can help detect up to 50 types of cancer before symptoms emerge. In an email sent yesterday, Grail Inc., which makes the test, said 400 customers were incorrectly sent letters suggesting they had cancer.

Despite Twitter’s withdrawal, the EU’s anti-disinformation code remains “strong,” said Vera Jourova.

Thirteen Cuban-Canadian Montrealers say the Cuban government has been targeting them through an online misinformation campaign. They say the government is spreading dangerous lies about them, and that law enforcement in Canada is not...