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Recent comments from the White House suggest that a campaign to undermine public trust in the media is not going away.

The Facebook CEO’s vision for a digital future still needs a little work.

My expert evidence to parliament shows how Cambridge Analytica and SCL secretly pushed their supposed notoriety in the dark arts in brazen ways.

A new study reveals that politicians are only too happy to use the term ‘fake news’ against the media – to the great detriment of journalism and public debate.

France’s parliament is debating a law that would allow “fake news” to be censored. While the outcome is uncertain, the precedent is dangerous.

We used the latest techniques from artificial intelligence to study how support for or opposition to a piece of fake news can spread within a social network.

A transcript of episode 10 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including a story on a new technique to prevent predators eating the eggs of endangered birds.

The fake news label has been used by politicians to discredit unfavourable media stories. But even assuming good intentions, new laws are incapable of tackling the menace.

This is a transcript of part two of The Anthill’s podcast series, India Tomorrow, on the politics of Hindu natonalism.

With Zelig-like serendipity I was in Stockholm when #lastnightinsweden went viral. While echoing the melancholic majesty of a classic ABBA song title, the hashtag #lastnightinsweden actually referred to…