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Russian authorities on Wednesday demanded an eight-year prison term for an artist and musician who was jailed after speaking out against Moscow's war in Ukraine. Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022, on charges of spreading false information about the military after replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans decrying the invasion. The legislation has been used in a widespread crackdown on opposition politicians, human rights activists and or...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) with respect to the regulations governing the…

Jackson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO) reports that a suspect took off from a traffic stop in White City, after giving deputies a false name.

SEREMBAN: The Attorney General's Chambers has rejected a representation filed by the son of a former minister to review charges related to the sale and storage of government-subsidised cooking oil, which is a controlled item.

The onset of the Hamas attack on Israel has given rise to rampant misinformation regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict on social media.

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesWhen George Santos’ congressional campaign came under federal investigation this year, no one wanted to be his treasurer—to the extent that one person took the unprecedented step of asking for a criminal investigation into how his name appeared on the forms in the first place.Now, the lawyer who filed that request has taken another unprecedented step by retracting those statements, claiming his own client gave him false information as ...

Kevin McMains falsely stated he had been severely injured in an explosion while serving in Iraq, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

A popular thread on X claimed Israel was losing the information war on TikTok, but experts point to a number of reasons to explain the popularity of pro-Palestine sentiments on TikTok.

Sergey Skvortsov, who was arrested last November near Stockholm, was alleged to have undertaken “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power,” namely the United States.

Social media is often used during times of conflict to spread fake news. Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIn the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of attacks, many of which proved false. For example, within hours of Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, screen grabs from a popular video game were shared by thousands of social media users as if depicting real scenes of violence against Israeli troops in Gaz...