Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a test case for how ad tech can be used as an instrument of psychological warfare, destabilizing a populace not only with propaganda but also methods designed to steal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads aimed at stirring up divisive issues such as gun control and race relations during the 2016 ...

Russia apparently has failed to fix its "ad-hoc" command structure amid an "operational pause" in Ukraine, a new report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Saturday. The full-scale war ...

MENLO PARK, California -- Facebook will soon rely on centuries-old technology to try to prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections: the post office. Baffled in 2016 by Russian agents who bought ads to ...

The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday released a selection of divisive Russian-linked Facebook ads in a hearing with lawyers from Facebook, Google and Twitter on Russian efforts to influence ...

The latest excitement in the Trump-Russia investigation is a set of Facebook ads linked to Russia, about 3,000 in all, that some of the president’s adversaries hope will prove the Trump campaign ...

A Conversation about Race has noted the risk cartoonists face in drawing caricatures of President Barack Obama. A couple months ago, we noted that Michael Cavna wondered in his Comic Riffs blog on ...

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The day after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, ...

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in overnight attacks on Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least three people and damaging large energy infrastructure facilities in three regions.