Over the weekend, a group of white supremacists wearing masks rented a bunch of U-Hauls and trucked themselves into D.C. to stage a rally. Footage of the rally shared on Twitter quickly went viral. The anti-fascist and disinformation research...
On November 26, Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee launched his Autumn-Winter Collection 2021, posting images on his official account featuring women wearing sarees in hues of beige and heavy necklaces with minimal make-up. But the women had no...
Republican Glen Youngkin’s win in Virginia’s gubernatorial race in early November caught the attention of many in the GOP. Although he was lagging behind Democrat Terry McAuliffe, his campaign gained steam when he decided to add another issue to his...
In October 2021, Pakistani journalist Asma Shirazi was targeted by a hate campaign after she published a column critiquing the current PTI government for the country’s economic downfall. Many interpreted the column as an attack on Prime Minister...
Facebook is lagging behind in its efforts to identify and remove climate change misinformation on its platform, campaigners have warned.
Many expressions of antisemitism in the Labour Party since 2015, and in left-wing spaces more widely for the last decade or more, have borne only a tangential connection to any definitive political argument about Israel/Palestine, and have much more...
The strange case of the Burari deaths was finally closed by Delhi police at the end of October. No signs of foul play, they concluded — the 11 members of the Chundawat family had killed themselves in a deadly ritual from which they believed their...
It’s hard to imagine a time when social media wasn’t the staging area for a pitched battle for truth or the engine of total epistemic and societal collapse (depending on whether you like your internet spatialized or not). Indeed, social media...
Making sense of an ambiguous threat like state disinformation is not easy, but more important now than ever. Because nations such as Russia artfully implement denial and deception, it may seem near impossible to determine the scale and types of...