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A day after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results is zeroing in on the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania. In Arizona, most of the misleading claims now circulating online began after problems emerged Tuesday with voter tabulation machines in Maricopa County. In Pennsylvania, baseless allegations are spreading about delays in vote counting. Misinformation experts say it’s not unusual for...

With some help from Twitter’s new owner, misinformation about the grievous attack on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband is surging online. Authorities say the suspect in the attack has told police he was targeting the House speaker, and there’s no reason to believe he knew her husband before he broke into their home Friday. Yet that hasn’t stopped bizarre...

NECN takes a deep dive into the dangers of political misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

A U.S. firm that monitors false online claims reports that searches for information about prominent news topics on TikTok are likely to turn up results riddled with misinformation.

A survey of people ages 16 to 40 finds that millennials and Generation Z follow the news but aren’t that happy with what they’re seeing.

Researchers created videos similar to a public service announcement that focused on specific misinformation techniques that include emotionally charged language, personal attacks or false comparisons between two unrelated items.

A photo of Ginni Thomas and husband Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas drinking an expensive bottle of wine went viral after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. But a simple reverse image search shows the photo is actually from 2018, MediaWise campus correspondent Loren Miranda explains.

The baby formula shortage in the U.S. has multiple causes, including recalls and overbuying. But a viral Facebook post falsely claimed that the shortage was caused by formula donations to Ukraine. MediaWise campus correspondent Gabbie Puzon explains how “lateral reading” can debunk the false post.

Ever since the release of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, you may have seen misinformation on social media that tries to appeal to users’ fears. MediaWise Campus Correspondent Kyle Davidson explains what you need to watch out for.

The theory, which began on the forum website 4chan, was spread by right-wing Facebook pages and even Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona.

As news of the Uvalde school shooting broke, false rumors began to spread that the shooter, Salvador Ramos, was transgender. People including Rep. Paul Gosar, Alex Jones and Candace Owens shared photos of a trans woman from Georgia unconnected to the shooter and said she was Ramos. As NBC OUT reporter Jo Yurcaba explains, the misinformation originated on 4chan, a...

An artist edited Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler onto a Time magazine cover, and many people falsely assumed the image was real – then shared it widely around social media. Reporter Maya Broadwater from Mediawise, a digital media literacy and factchecking group, explains.

Social media has given journalists and the public access to a huge amount of information from the war in Ukraine, but separating fact from disinformation has never been harder. Members of the NBC Social Newsgathering team joined NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker to walk him through how they vet social media videos to get at the truth.

What would it take for Spotify to distance itself from Joe Rogan and his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience? Though artists Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from the platform, the streaming service is not likely to nix its $100 million deal with Rogan, says Business Insider reporter Natalie Jarvey. She says platforms have weathered other controversies...

Spotify is adding a content advisory warning to podcasts that discuss COVID-19 amid complaints that it was allowing misinformation to spread on its platform.

More than 80 fact checking organizations are calling on YouTube to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform

Twitter says it’s banned the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy

An osteopathic doctor in Maine has had his license suspended for a month for what Maine officials say is misinforming people about COVID-19. The State of Maine’s Board of Osteopathic Licensure “emergently suspended” the license of Dr. Paul Gosselin, D.O., because of COVID-19 “exemption letters” he signed and “provider reports concerned with Dr. Gosselin’s spread of misinformation regarding COVID-19,”...

Law enforcement accused Iran of orchestrating an email campaign aimed at intimidating Democratic voters in battleground states so they would vote for then-President Donald Trump.

Twitter users will see new warning labels on false and misleading tweets, redesigned to make them more effective and less confusing.