Elon Musk actively backs Trump's candidacy, leveraging X to spread misinformation and mobilize voters through his super PAC, America PAC.

While both presidential campaigns focus on winning the swing state, Arizona poll workers face threats linked to the 2020 election.

The former president has said that the White House is diverting disaster relief aid to unrelated migrant programs, a claim debunked by FEMA's head

"This comes from the same person that said vile statements about migrants poisoning the blood of our country", said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre when asked about the statement

"It's really a shame that we're putting politics ahead of helping people, and that's what we're here to do," said FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on ABC News

54% of respondents in the Axios survey agreed with the statement, "I've disengaged from politics because I can't tell what's true"

The comments arrive amid recent incidents in Springfield which has prompted Columbus to consider establishing a commission on immigration and refugee affairs

Roughly half of those polled by KFF were unaware that undocumented immigrants are ineligible for federally funded health insurance programs

The claims have spiked after the last presidential debate when Donald Trump called Kamala Harris and her father "Marxists"

Oliver mockingly referred to Trump's comments on the debate stage as an "exceptional moment in American oratory"

The report comes after the US government accused Russia's state news agency RT earlier this month of seeking to influence the presidential election in November and imposed sanctions on its top editors.

"The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes" said Vance on CNN

"My son was not murdered," Nathan Clark said. "He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti"

The false claims, made by Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance about Haitians in his home state of Ohio, spread like wildfire

Advocates believe the focus on this narrative threatens to sow distrust in the election system and could be used to justify challenges should Trump lose

The project is an offspring from Efecto Cocuyo, a local news organization with a specialized fact-checking unit

The site that helps Latinos combat fake news in Spanish is getting ready for its toughest test yet: the 2024 elections

As Latinos emerge as a powerful community, they also become prime targets of misinformation, says the Spanish-language network's news presenter

Misinformation and disinformation top the list for the following two years, while extreme weather events are the main one over the next ten

Climate conspiracy theories are flourishing with lifestyle influencers joining in the misinformation war and scientists hounded on social media, researchers say, as pressure rises on leaders at the COP28 summit.

Influencers with a large following, these mothers typically cite personal testimonies to passionately endorse detox sprays or bath treatments, claiming without evidence that they help rid children of toxins such as heavy metals and parasites.

The conflict, experts say, offers a grim case study of the diminished ability of prominent platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter, to combat false information in a climate of layoffs and cost-cutting that have gutted trust and safety teams.

Whether it is YouTube scrapping a key misinformation policy or Facebook altering fact checking controls, the social media giants are demonstrating a certain lassitude with being the sheriffs of the internet Wild West.

As many across the world mourn for the death of legendary TV icon Betty White, her manager confirmed on Monday that she did not get a booster vaccine days before she died, squashing rumors about it in social media.

A California history teacher has been booted out from her job for allegedly misinforming her students that former president Donald Trump remains America's top leader.

Francis Goncalves said his brother was the healthiest person he knew eating only whole foods, was on a plant-based diet and had not had alcohol in 15 years.