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Sudan defense minister rejects claims aid convoy carried weapons in North Kordofan strike

Gen. Hassan Kabroun claimed the area was under the full control of the Sudanese Armed Forces and “does not require transporting any military equipment using aid convoys as decoys.” 

Displaced Sudanese wait to receive humanitarian aid at the Abu al-Naga displacement camp in the Gedaref State, some 420km east of the capital Khartoum on February 6, 2026.
An AI-generated picture faking President Isaac Herzog posing with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, and others, posted by a journalist for The Times on X/Twitter, February 9, 2026.

'Times' journalist posts AI-generated picture of Isaac Herzog and Jeffrey Esptein, apologizes

Community members gather outside of Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Australia.

Pakistan alleges Israel and India spread disinformation linking it to Bondi Beach attack

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party supporters protest to demand release of their jailed leader and Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Peshawar on December 2, 2025.

Pakistani minister says 90% of social media content is false, urges crackdown


'Stretching' facts in a post-truth era harms politicians' credibility - study

With increasing scrutiny on global government policies in a “post-truth” era, policymakers are being forced to justify their actions and validate reasons for their decisions.

Former US President Donald Trump addresses The Faith and Freedom Coalition's 2023 "Road to Majority" conference in Washington, US, June 24, 2023.

People who use personal feelings to determine truth more likely to believe conspiracies - study

Results revealed that individuals who hold relativistic conceptions of truth are indeed more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, holding a sign referencing QAnon, speaks as supporters of US President Donald Trump gather to protest about the early results of the 2020 presidential election

Meta identifies Iran and Turkey's network of ‘adversarial threat’

The company ‘removed 22 Facebook accounts, 21 Pages and seven Instagram accounts for violating our policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior’

 The logo of Meta Platforms is seen in Davos, Switzerland, May 22, 2022.

Don't criticize Ben-Gvir for false racism. Call out his actual racism - editorial

Itamar Ben-Gvir made shameful and abhorrent remarks about an Israeli Arab journalist. Why is that being ignored instead of something Ben-Gvir never even said?

 Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks during a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2023.

‘The Great Dismissal’: How Israel, the US got to be in a post-truth era - review

How is it that “populism” has become so rampant in so many countries these days with leaders destroying democracies and yet claiming, falsely, that they are ensuring democracy in their countries?

 President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017.

German man accused of posing as a Jew and peddling fake, antisemitism-laced Holocaust story

Central Council of Jews in Germany: "The damage done by such charlatans to such an important project is great."

 The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

'Adam and Eve' theory: Catastrophe as Earth's magnetic poles reverse?

The "Adam and Eve" theory is gaining momentum on TikTok, according to which every 6,500 years a disaster on the scale of the biblical "flood" strikes the Earth. Is it true?

 'The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man’ by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, circa 1615

‘Chronically online’ Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news - study

The first survey to use the new 20-point test called ‘MIST’ has found that adult US citizens correctly classified two-thirds of headlines they were shown as either real or fake.

Is Facebook the most hateful social media network? (illustrative)

Jerusalem Design Week 2023 focuses on facts

This year’s Jerusalem Design Week checks out the facts on the ground.

 NEVO HIMMELHOCH’S ‘LOOP-X-MACHINA-2.1’ creation offers insight on the evolving deconstructive process AI algorithms use to generate output.

Israeli minister's NYC parade photo: A symptom of what we must combat - opinion

A word to Amichai Chikli: The photo may indeed be fake news, but it is essential to move forward and focus on the real challenges we face as the Jewish people.

 Amichai Chikli  attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 6, 2022