Experts weigh in on regulations, new technology, and inverted firms.

Apparently, about $17,000.

People are nearly as good as fact-checkers at sussing out unreliable news sources, a new study finds.

New research shows social media advertising can spread falsehoods or amplify facts.

Receiving a gift makes you 56 percent more likely to do some giving of your own.

Work underway by an MIT professor puzzles how bots change minds — or swing an election.

When it comes to spotting fake news, 'a little thinking might go a long way.'

Borrowing a model from statistical physics, an MIT professor finds a better way to detect online bots.

An MIT professor tries to get a follow from Taylor Swift and ends up with a new tool for information warfare.

At MIT commencement, the social media giant's COO urges students to build technology with a 'human heartbeat.'