“No way this could have happened,” President Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial early Monday morning. “Rigged Election!” While he could reasonably have been referring to any number of elections he’s deemed “rigged” over the last decade, in this instance, Trump had turned his bleary eyes to the Los Angeles mayoral race, where a progressive challenger, […]
Every week, a group of men in their late 60s meets at the Corner Cafe in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. One important reason for these meetups is to discuss what’s going on in their community. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Local news has virtually dried up in their […]
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Is Frito-Lay categorically refusing to buy potatoes grown on farmland that has hosted solar installations? No, the company says. That hasn’t stopped lawmakers in Michigan and Pennsylvania from spreading the false claim about one of the biggest purchasers of potatoes […]
I ask, in all good conscience, where is justice when the jester is thrown out of the court while a Martin Romualdez continues to prowl the premises?
Artificial intelligence is increasingly emerging not merely as a technological breakthrough, but as the central infrastructure through which information, influence and institutional power are being reorganised globally. What began as competition over social media visibility and search engine rankings is evolving into a much broader struggle over datasets, cloud infrastructure, informational…
Dutch authorities arrested two suspects after dismantling a bulletproof hosting network linked to cybercrime, disinfo, and Russian sanctions evasion.
A cache of leaked documents has exposed a sprawling foreign influence network operating across 34 African countries, revealing how Africa’s political space is being quietly reshaped through disinformation, elite capture and engineered narratives. The revelations force a reckoning with the continent’s own vulnerabilities and with the manufactured solidarities that have seduced parts of Africa’s…
A silhouette of Donald Trump, with the Iranian flag and the aftermath of war behind him
In April, the MAHA Mom Coalition, an organization that claims it advocates for “parental rights, holistic health, clean food & water, and medical freedom,” put out an unusual call. They wanted to talk to the farmers who’d been finding mysterious boxes of ticks in their fields—farmers and boxes that, by every available indication, don’t seem […]
In a brief ruling late Wednesday, a Texas appeals court panel declined to immediately turn over Infowars, the conspiracy empire founded by Alex Jones, to a receiver, pending further court proceedings. That receiver had previously signed a deal with the satirical news site The Onion to take over Infowars’ physical and intellectual property; the emergency […]
A philosopher argues that Donald Trump’s falsehoods are not lies intended to deceive but expressions of contempt, which are now alienating his base as they feel the effects.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As scientists confirmed that March was the United States’ most abnormally hot month in recorded history, dozens of climate deniers gathered to promote misinformation and tout their newfound influence on federal policy. At a conference hosted by the prominent science-denying think…
Jacob Siegel appears on the left, Zach Weissmueller appears on the right. The cover art of Jacob;s book "The Information State" appears behind them.
A recent analysis conducted by the AI startup Oumi at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91 percent of the time.
In a sense, that may sound like an impressive figure. But here’s an even more impressive one: five trillion. That’s roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every…
As a historian, I often have the opportunity to teach classes that speak to my research interests. I teach variety of courses on U.S. political history and immigration studies—a subject in line with my reporting background. However, I recently decided to bring together my love of journalism and history to teach a class I billed as “A History of Disinformation.”
Recently, as a visiting assistant…
President Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr with an explosion in the background
They connect the death of a 12-year-old girl in Toledo City, Cebu, to drug use — despite the lack of verified information from authorities
As London’s ‘School Wars’ trend spreads, security officials confront a darker question: could hostile states exploit youth-driven chaos to amplify fear, deepen division and unsettle Britain’s social fabric today?
Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales on the opposite sides of the Wikipedia logo.
‘The biggest change from 2016 to today is the fusion of State with Big Tech,’ says Nobel laureate Maria Ressa
What is shaping up to be the main version in the House, HB 2697, authored by Majority Leader Sandro Marcos, may turn out to be a trap — for free speech advocates, journalists, content creators
Definitely _not_ an exclusive. Been s thing for years now.
Trump's grip on power thrives by leveraging social media's emotional triggers to create fragmented realities and bypass democratic discourse