disinformation

The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the U.S.

Mistrust in government can play a big role in where and how refugees and newcomers are accessing COVID-19 information, write Leila El Shennawy and Meral Jamal.

Hate speech, disinformation and online extremism can't be allowed to prevent people from enjoying the freedom that cyberspace offers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at an international discussion on the internet.

The Prime Minister made the remarks in a speech to Dutch parliamentarians in The Hague Friday, Oct. 29.

During a hearing Thursday, Democrats compared Big Oil's tactics to those long deployed by the tobacco industry to resist regulation “while selling products that kill hundreds of thousands of Americans."

The fallout from a Facebook whistleblower's explosive revelations this month continues to descend on Canada as politicians and experts grapple with how to regulate Big Tech amid renewed questions on the harm it can wreak.

And in case anyone still wants to pretend this is all just talk, there’s the terrorist attack earlier this year that killed a Muslim family in London, Ont., writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The German government on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, denounced attempts by some people or groups to spread disinformation in areas devastated by floods two weeks ago.

Online game Breaking Harmony Square acts like a vaccine against misinformation in hopes that next time people encounter such manipulation in the real world, they’ll recognize it for what it is.

Some of the biggest contributors to global warming — if indirect ones — are the public relations firms and ad agencies in the pay of Big Oil and Big Auto.

On Day 2 of the Nobel Prize Summit, the celebrated immunologist, who received death threats last year after he corrected Donald Trump’s pandemic lies, had a warning for scientists seduced by the proximity to power.

Xiye Bastida, a young climate activist from Mexico, urged scientists and world leaders to pay attention to traditional Indigenous knowledge in addition to their usual information sources as she spoke at the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit.

The head of Facebook Canada says rules requiring it to pay publishers for news content linked on its site would be a worst-case scenario for the social media behemoth.

Royal Swedish Academy of Science report says steps to address climate change will be hard to enforce if they continue to suffer targeted attacks in social media

Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher joined Conversations host Linda Solomon Wood on Thursday for a virtual chat on free knowledge and fighting disinformation.