As India’s COVID-19 caseload went up, there was a colossal increase in messages forwarded on social media about Ayurvedic cures for the disease

The team at Logically has investigated these claims, tracked the use of the #pridekashmir hashtag on Twitter and Instagram, and examined the history and how the Pride Kashmir organization operates.

In October 2019, masked protestors disrupted an event organized by the School of Oriental and African studies at the London University featuring activist Kavitha Krishnan and queer activist Professor Dibyesh Anand as panelists.

A Logically investigation reveals how 4chan and 8kun trolls hatched a coordinated plan to hijack Black Lives Matter hashtag trends by manipulating hashtag co-occurrence.

On March 18th, just before lockdown was announced in the UK, I received a long (600 words or so) text from a family member. I have no idea where they had got it from, and I suspect they hadn’t read it; they certainly hadn’t read it carefully.

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On the afternoon of June 14, 2020 the news broke that 34-year-old Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput had been found dead at his apartment in Bandra, Mumbai. The police confirmed that the cause of death was suicide, and also that he had been suffering from depression.

Former Atlanta Braves players Andruw Jones and Brad Clontz flew from County Cobb airport outside Atlanta towards Miami on June 12th, as shown by the above image from Instagram. Ads-b tracking showed the plane heading for Miami after taking off.

The real life risks posed by false information spread online are growing, according to Cindy Otis, a former CIA agent and independent disinformation expert.

The Indian public is no stranger to fake news, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought with it unique circumstances which makes the problem of misinformation more pressing and dangerous.

While countries like Iran and China are witnessing a second wave of the coronavirus, other countries are easing lockdown measures. The world cannot stop and wait for a vaccine.

Followers of the QAnon conspiracy drew on the fact the that tweet featured an image of George Floyd — with the date being a week before his death — to claim that this was further proof that Floyd’s killing was part of an elaborate hoax.

The problem of information overload has given rise to the need of filtering information from misinformation. Misinformation is inaccurate or false information that is meant to deceive or manipulate people.

In this article, we look at how basic film studies knowledge and rhetorical analysis techniques can be used to pick apart the appeals to emotion made by disinformation.

In March, the Russian website Panorama published an article claiming that Joseph Stalin had made a 1947 prediction about ways the United States would fight geopolitical rivals in the future.