Editorial: The Trump administration’s initial reaction to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis shows how the incentives created by social media are distorting truth and undermining ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...

In A Nutshell AI swarms can create the illusion of widespread agreement by coordinating thousands of human-like accounts. This “synthetic consensus” exploits how people rely on social cues to form ...

Agentic AI bot swarms, networks of semi-autonomous systems that coordinate their actions, are moving from research labs into ...

Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say ...

Over the last five or so decades, American elections have become increasingly defined by what they don’t accomplish. The classical liberal model of free and fair elections to select representatives ...

History suggests that resistance will not end when the military falls. It will only end when real systemic justice is achieved. The U.N. and Myanmar flags flying side by side outside the Pyidaungsu ...

Thinking back to the day Edgar Maddison Welch burst into Comet Ping Pong is, for me, a reminder. It’s easy to cast judgment on someone who drives across state lines with an AR-15 to investigate a ...