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This year’s Oscar nominees for best international feature film include the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” assembled from footage smuggled out of Russia in 2024 by its creator, Pavel Talankin, ...

Fake news generated by AI is often perceived as more credible than texts written by humans. That worries linguist Silje Susanne Alvestad. In 2017, "fake news" was chosen as the new word of the year by ...

From anti-Nazi photo montages to staged photos, an exhibition in Amsterdam focuses on the long history of manipulated visuals ...

Tehran-linked channels advertise paid assignments for surveillance and other tasks, raising concerns about a growing ...

Chuck Schumer publicly called one of Donald Trump’s recent claims an “outright lie,” and that sharp rebuke has reignited debates over truth, tactics, and political theater. This post breaks down what ...

Her documentaries earned her acclaim as a cinematic genius, as well as criticism for putting her talent at the service of ...

Chance Glasco was responding to a White House propaganda video showing a montage of attacks on Iranian targets overlayed with ...

Optical techniques are methods that use light to probe or control matter. One prominent example is optical spectroscopy, which includes such methods as pump–probe spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and ...

Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge ...

Advanced violence is democratizing.  AI, in conjunction with dramatic improvements in robotics, energy production, and ...

Thousands of African nationals have been drawn into Russia’s war in Ukraine, often through a calculated pipeline of deception and exploitation.