The bill passed by the Virginia legislature prohibits schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it "as peaceful protest." ...

Fictions, misleading claims, wild exaggerations, lies — former president Donald Trump dispenses untruths of one variant or another relentlessly. The falsehoods range from the inconsequential, like the ...

A 2022 movie and book called "2,000 Mules" outlined what they maintained was credible evidence of a widespread effort by people — "mules" — illegally depositing ballots into ballot drop boxes to sway ...

Almost one in four fact checks of political discourse focuses on false claims that have been repeated, and each claim is repeated an average of four times. These are not isolated errors, but ...

Millions of immigrants are coming to the U.S. from foreign prisons and mental institutions. Immigrants are raising U.S. crime rates. Immigrants are ruining Social Security. Noncitizens are illegally ...

Misleading anecdotes and rumors are spreading faster, and with more ferocity, than in the run-ups to past presidential contests. By Stuart A. Thompson Stuart Thompson has monitored online influence ...

WASHINGTON — In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump has cited an arsenal of falsehoods, baseless claims and distortions to try to justify significant policy changes on the ...

In April 2022, Nick Sawyer sat down before a committee of the California State Assembly to argue for legislation to help limit the spread of COVID falsehoods. Sawyer, an emergency-room physician, had ...

Chief among the myriad perplexities of the recent U.S. presidential election was that Donald Trump's well documented stream of lies, falsehoods, rumors, and misinformation had no apparent negative ...