Members of the House Science Committee are ramping up scrutiny of a university project that studies trends on Twitter. Criticism of the government-funded “Truthy” project at Indiana University grew ...

Feeling overwhelmed by the uproar of political messages clamoring for your attention online? Finding it difficult to distinguish political fact from political fiction? A new Website called ...

‘Tis the season, sadly, for misinformation. With elections coming up on November 2nd, we can pretty much expect the Internet to be clogged with falsehoods, outright lies, and general wrongness. But ...

With the next round of US elections just around the corner, the country is hotly debating who the nation’s next set of leaders should be. This hoopla means that revelations about candidates are sure ...

Whatever your political bent, it’s safe to say that politics today are dominated by smears and half-truths, lent enormous reach thanks to the Web. Did you hear that Barack Obama is a Muslim that took ...

Five leading groups in the computer science industry are urging Congress to consult experts when investigating the funding of a university project that studies Twitter trends. They said the “Truthy” ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On August 26, Fox’s Megyn Kelly aired a four-minute segment on an Indiana University project called Truthy, declaring ...

A new Web project out of Indiana University is separating the truth from the “truthy” in political Tweets online. The project—named “Truthy,” after Stephen Colbert’s descriptor for misinformation ...

Do you use Twitter? Do you like free speech? Then this article is a must read. Ajit Pai, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, just wrote an eye-opening op-ed on how the government is ...

The federal government has become a vast cornucopia for people who know how to play the system. If you do, you can enjoy showers of money for doing things that few if any Americans would willingly pay ...