Websites posing as local news outlets funded by partisan groups have surged past the number of sites of independent daily newspapers on the internet, according to a report released Tuesday by a ...

A Lake County judge has given the company that publishes far-right websites and flyers designed to look like newspapers until 5 p.m. Monday to remove some personally identifiable voter information it ...

“NewsGuard, which rates the quality and trustworthiness of news sites, has identified 1,197 pink slime sites operating in the US as of April 1 — about as many as the estimated 1,200 real news sites ...

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Earlier this year, as the political battle over congressional redistricting brought California into the national spotlight, Facebook users were shown a curious series of ads. The ads, from a ...

Social media has changed how campaigns reach voters before an election. It has also changed how news is spread. Websites known as “pink slime” organizations use computer-generated algorithms to ...