Vietnam Veterans Group: ‘Foreign Criminals’ Targeting Servicemembers for Online Exploitation The group called on the Trump administration to "take swift, coordinated actions" to protect veterans.
Scams and Hoax Accounts Proliferate on Instagram April 2019 saw the culmination of a months-long popular uprising in the country of Sudan, when its former president Omar al-Bashir stepped down from his post. The Sudanese military quickly took control of the country in what it called a transitional phase. In the weeks following al-Bashir’s ouster, however, clashes became both deadlier and more […]
Identifying Fake News Series: ‘Contact Us’ Pages Fake news can vary widely in quality and believably from source to source, but quite often identifying it is as easy as taking a moment to learn who is behind a that particular website or social media account. Frequently the creators of fake news put quantity ahead of quality, and they are counting on the […]
Identifying Fake News Series: Fake News Generators For the last several years, we have been hearing about foreign governments subverting United States elections using sophisticated teams that create fake stories and circulate them on social media. While foreign governments and large teams are most certainly a major source of disinformation, there are also tools available online that make it easy for anyone […]
Are Fetuses and Embryos Being Used to Generate Power? The practice of incinerating medical waste has been fused with antisemitic conspiracy theories in order to produce a distasteful narrative about abortion.
