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Europe Banned Russia’s RT Network. Its Content Is Still Spreading.

A study found that hundreds of sites, many without obvious Kremlin links, copied Russian propaganda and spread it to unsuspecting audiences ahead of the E.U....

China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms

China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say.

ISIS Claimed the Moscow Concert Hall Attack. Russian Officials Blame Others.

Russian narratives served to deflect attention from the failure to prevent the deadly attack while rallying the country behind the war in Ukraine.

Pro-China YouTube Network Used A.I. to Malign U.S., Report Finds

Content from at least 30 channels in the network drew nearly 120 million views and 730,000 subscribers since last year.

Disinformation Is Big Challenge as COP28 Opens in Dubai

Online influencers, fossil fuel companies and some of the countries attending COP28 have nourished a feedback loop of falsehoods.

A.I.’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble for Guardrails

Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.

Another Side of the AI Boom: Detecting What AI Makes

More than a dozen companies have popped up to offer services aimed at identifying whether photos, text and videos are made by humans or machines.

See How Real AI-Generated Images Have Become

Human eyes — and even technology — often struggle to identify images created by artificial intelligence. Experts fear that may hasten an erosion of trust...