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The agency that oversees online addresses on Tuesday called for those issuing website address to vigilantly thwart cyber scams exploiting coronavirus...

Twitter co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey said Tuesday he was committing $1 billion of his personal fortune to coronavirus relief through...

Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne after a NATO meeting on Thursday slammed coronavirus disinformation campaigns spread by...

Google on Thursday said it is pumping $6.5 million into fact-checkers and nonprofits as it ramps up its the battle against coronavirus misinformation.Fact-checking...

Coronavirus-related fraud schemes are rising fast and have cost US consumers some $4.77 million so far, a government watchdog said Tuesday.The...

Facebook on Tuesday activated a feature allowing people impacted by the coronavirus pandemic to reach out for help from their community.The Community...

Facebook and Instagram removed videos of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on Monday, saying they spread misinformation about the coronavirus,...

The biggest reputational risk Facebook and other social media companies had expected in 2020 was fake news surrounding the US presidential election....

China has retreated from spreading conspiracy theories online in the developing world alleging US involvement in the coronavirus pandemic after...

From being duped into taking poisonous "cures", to watching businesses crumble and avoiding life-saving medication, people are suffering devastating...

Gamers breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday after the end of a network outage that affected Nintendo's online games, with internet-based systems...

Nintendo said its online games were shut down Tuesday as a result of an unspecified network problem as internet-based systems faced pressures...

Twitter has ordered all staff globally to work from home in an effort to stop the spread of the deadly new coronavirus epidemic.The outbreak...

Facebook and Twitter both added tags denoting false or manipulated content to a video reposted by US President Donald Trump of his Democrat rival...

Twitter has used a new policy to identify misleading content for the first time on a post retweeted by US President Donald Trump that appeared...

A new draft law that could make it easier for foreigners to gain permanent residency in China has stirred up a torrent of xenophobia online.The...