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  • WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 12: Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray listens at a hearing with the House Select Intelligence Committee in the Cannon Office Building on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. Leaders from the U.S. intelligence community are participating in hearings with both the Senate and House intelligence committees to lay out their perceived global threats to the United States. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Politics

    AI is supercharging election disinformation worldwide as more than 50 countries head to the polls in 2024

    By Ali Swenson, Kelvin Chan, and others
  • Jessica RosenworcelPolitics

    ‘It seems like something from the far-off future, but this threat is already here’: FCC bans AI-generated robocalls

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • PhiladelphiaTech

    Philadelphia sheriff caught posting over 30 fake news stories generated by ChatGPT to her website

    By Maryclaire Dale, Ali Swenson, and others
  • PennsylvaniaTech

    As social media execs were getting grilled in Congress, YouTube spent hours hosting a grisly atrocity video. Then it spread to X

    By Haleluya Hadero, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    ‘What a bunch of malarkey’: New Hampshire AG probes reports of AI Biden robocall using his signature phrase

    By Ali Swenson, Will Weissert, and others
  • Oren EtzioniTech

    Top AI expert ‘completely terrified’ of 2024 election, shaping up to be ‘tsunami of misinformation’

    By Ali Swenson, Christine Fernando, and others
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    Trump claims he never read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ as he seeks to defend comments about immigrants ‘poisoning the blood’ of America

    By Hannah Fingerhut, Ali Swenson, and others
  • MIAMI, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 12: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign event “Declare Your Independence Celebration” at Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County on October 12, 2023 in Miami, Florida. Miami is the first stop of three that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will do in Florida with his Declare Your Independence Celebration event, announcing that he dropped his Democratic bid for president and will run as an independent candidate. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)Health

    RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx campaign has left a trail of people hurt by his work: ‘It’s disturbing because he has a huge family name’

    By Michelle R. Smith, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Politics

    ‘He’s making money off of our tragedies’: Families affected by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine stance speak out

    By Michelle R. Smith, Ali Swenson, and others
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Politics

    RFK Jr. expected to declare third-party presidential run, citing corruption ‘in the leadership of both political parties’

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during an interview with Sean Hannity, host of the Sean Hannity Show, not pictured, in the spin room following the Republican primary presidential debate hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Republican presidential contenders are facing off in their first debate of the primary season, minus frontrunner Donald Trump, who continues to lead his GOP rivals by a double-digit margin. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Gov. Ron DeSantis told a gripping story about abortion at the GOP debate. The reality is far more complicated than he described

    By Adriana Gomez Licon, Christine Fernando, and others
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Politics

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims he’s not antisemitic or racist as he stands by COVID conspiracy theory about racial infection rates

    By Lisa Mascaro, Ali Swenson, and others
  • FILE – Twitter, now X. Corp, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses before his talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, May 15, 2023, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. In an interview with CNBC’s David Faber this week, Twitter owner Elon Musk said users making false claims of a stolen election “will be corrected” on the platform in the lead-up to 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)Tech

    Elon Musk promised this week that false election claims ‘will be corrected’ on Twitter but they’re thriving on the platform unchecked

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • Former US President Donald Trump with his defense team during his arraignment at court in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Trump entered a not-guilty plea to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in a proceeding that took a little less than an hour. Photographer: Seth Wenig/Associated Press/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Donald Trump’s mug shot goes viral online—even though he didn’t take one

    By Ali Swenson and The Associated Press
  • Dolores Cruz shows a photograph of her youngest son, Eric Cruz, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, at her home in San Gabriel, Calif. Cruz published an essay in 2022 about grieving for her son, who died in a car crash in 2017. “Died Suddenly” used a screenshot of the headline in the film, portraying his death as vaccine related. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Health

    ‘Died suddenly’ surges more than 740% in tweets about COVID vaccines: ‘It’s kind of in-group language’

    By Ali Swenson, Angelo Fichera, and others