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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 part of what i

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 Gaza. Five