Someone has created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump over the past 11 months, an Israeli tech firm ...

Misinformation and disinformation have scaled in the Information Age. MIT researchers analyzed 126,000 stories between 2006 and 2016 and found that false stories spread six times faster than true ...

The removal is one of the latest casualties in Twitter's battle against bots. One minute, they were cranking out an endless stream of tweets, pushing conservative-leaning news articles or fiery video ...