As I seem to have become the resident “fake news” writer here at ProfHacker, I feel like I would be remiss not to review the new tool Hoaxy visualizes the spread of claims and related fact checking ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We're at the point where the proliferation of fake news online has had extreme offline consequences. While Google has poured funds into battling misinformation and Facebook has asked its users to rate ...

Researchers have launched upgrades to two tools playing a major role in the fight against the spread of misinformation online. Researchers at the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have ...

A brand new search engine called Hoaxy, which aims to track the spread of fake news, is now available in beta. The search engine was created by Indiana University’s Network Science Institute and its ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Researchers at Indiana University have developed a new tool that shows how fake news and unverified stories spread through social media. The search engine, dubbed Hoaxy, is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new tool called Hoaxy lets you search for terms and articles, and shows you how claims spread on Twitter as well as efforts to ...

Researchers at the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have recently updated their web tool developed to spot dodgy news on Twitter and track how it spreads through the network. Hoaxy is a ...

Anyone who has ever been on Twitter has seen falsehoods and lies. Hoaxy has seen more than that. A government-financed program, Hoaxy has surveyed “Wrong Twitter,” the fact-averse swath of the social ...

A Hoaxy search reveals articles that claim cannabis cures cancer. The graph on the left shows the rise in these claims over the past five months. The graph on the right shows the claim's spread on ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Now you can map the web of lies. A ...