Be Aware of Persuasion Tactics to Help Stay Focused on Facts Nowadays, finfluencers play an essential role in communicating investment advice, but, as in everything, there are instances of bad actors.

Whether it’s a heartfelt anecdote, a personal testimony or a meme echoing familiar cultural narratives ... a Kremlin-backed operation that used nearly a thousand fake social media accounts to spread ...

The Cognition, Narrative, and Culture Lab at Florida International University is actively developing AI tools designed to detect disinformation campaigns that utilize narrative persuasion techniques.

Dakota Johnson is no stranger to wearing daring ensembles, but she ended up covering her very low-cut minidress on "The Tonight Show" with tissues. The actress costars in the film directed by Oscar ...

At the Cognition, Narrative and Culture Lab at Florida International University, we are building AI tools to help detect disinformation campaigns that employ tools of narrative persuasion. We are ...

Disinformation campaigns are using AI to tell false but compelling stories. AI tools are also helping counter the campaigns by detecting incongruities in usernames, cultural references and timelines.

For any number of reasons, Dakota Johnson gets a lot of flak for being who she is, whether it stems from good old-fashioned misogyny or criticism aimed at her acting capabilities. The former is bad no ...

For Mir and Garfinkle, America’s reversion to “orality” underlies much of today’s political dysfunction. In their telling, ...

Although some may hate to admit it, social media influencers focused on financial topics—or “finfluencers”—have become a popular source of investment advice. Finfluencers are now playing a ...

While artificial intelligence is making the problem worse, it is also becoming one of the most powerful tools to fight against such manipulation. Researchers are using machine learning techniques to ...