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Democrat Mail Bomb Scares Are a Perfect Misinformation Storm
News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online...
How the Kavanaugh Information War Mirrors Real Warzones
Opinion: From using open source intelligence to spreading false reports to brazenly rewriting history, social media warriors on both sides of the controversy are taking a page from Russia...
Al Jazeera SMS service Hacked, Fake messages spread by Hackers
Al-Jazeera says hackers have targeted the Qatar-based TV satellite channel for the second time in a week, sending out false news reports on its mobile sms service. Al Jazeera confirm the hack in a tweet,"We'd like to inform our subscribers that Aljazeera sms sevice is being compromised by pirates...
Man Pleads Guilty in $4.8m ATM Fraud
A Connecticut man pleaded guilty to automatic teller machine ATM fraud on Tuesday following a scheme that conned $4.8 million from a Rhode Island bank over the last few years. John DeMilo of Branford, Conn. faces jail time for helping defraud Cranston-based Domestic Bank. Between 2000 and 2010,...