Government officials and tech experts are urging social media platforms to ramp up their monitoring of extremist propaganda. This comes as a new report from the Tech Transparency Project says X, ...

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The militant Islamic State group, or ISIS, lost its physical territory in 2019, but it remains an active force on social media, according to researchers from the Penn State ...

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online.

The US military used fake social media accounts to spread propaganda that was designed to discredit China’s COVID-19 vaccine in the Philippines during the height of the pandemic, according to a ...

X CEO Elon Musk eviscerated the media watchdog Media Matters for America as an "evil propaganda machine" while discussing his upcoming lawsuit against them on Sunday. The Tesla and X CEO came on an X ...

THE National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) on Saturday warned the public against what it described as a coordinated and nationwide social media propaganda campaign ...

LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) - A Europe-wide police unit is to be set up next month with the aim of shutting down social media accounts used by key Islamic State (IS) militants to spread propaganda and ...

The seed for this story was the discovery of an intriguing government filing: A New Jersey company had disclosed to the Justice Department that it was being paid $300,000 by the Chinese Consulate in ...

Russian navy recruits perform with the Russian flag in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 4 during a ceremony marking the departure of recruits to join the army. In a year filled with elections around ...