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PolitiFact and WLRN found no Florida law, new or otherwise, requiring fathers to complete DNA testing to be on their children's birth certificates.

In March, a federal jury convicted Douglass Mackey, a social media influencer from West Palm Beach, for participating in a conspiracy to deprive people of their constitutional right to vote.

Public health experts and social media researchers are concerned that the change could have serious consequences if it discourages vaccination and other efforts to combat the still-spreading virus.

We've heard again and again that crime is rising. But the reality is far more complex, in part because of how we define crime in the first place.

Anyone who's online and shares information plays some role in shaping whether falsehoods gain traction. Here's some advice on how to share responsibly.

False information targeting the Latino community is surging. Much of it is designed to galvanize voters or discourage pregnant women from seeking care.

"There's an implication that the Fish Wildlife Service removed protections for gopher tortoises. They did not. If we wanted to think of the immediate protection level changes for the species, this finding document found no change," said Jeffrey Goessling of Eckerd College.

Brazilian voters are being bombarded by online misinformation, less than a week before they pick their next leader. Baseless rumors are whipping through social media in Latin America’s largest democracy, roiling Brazilian politics much as U.S. politics has been roiled.

Getting a sense of falsehoods online might sound straightforward, but it isn't. Researchers use state-of-the-art algorithms but it also comes down to lots of scrolling and reading.

NewsGuard, an organization created by journalists to monitor disinformation and assess the credibility of news and information websites, launched a Venezuela misinformation tracker to debunk what it says are widely shared conspiracies in the Americas. Analysts found that Russian disinformation often starts by gaining popularity in Venezuela before moving to the rest of Latin America.

Positive messaging about democratic values like freedom and unity seems to have a meaningful effect on whether voters say they trust voting results.

An NPR investigation found that since the Capitol riot, the election denial movement has moved from the national level to hundreds of grassroots events across the country. Here are four key takeaways.