Disinformation and Misinformation

An AI-generated video posted to RedNote shows Peter Dutton speaking in Mandarin.

A comparison of a video of Peter Dutton posted to RedNote and his original remarks show how his remarks were taken out of context.

A series of attacks on Australian political parties on emerging Chinese social media platform RedNote raise concerns about misinformation, disinformation and the risk of foreign interference ahead of the federal election.

Jonathan Hair from ABC Verify takes a close look at some of the content from the disaster zone, and how to tell whether it's real or not.

With a lot of people using their phones to capture important moments during the cyclone, ABC Verify's Jonathan Hair looks at how to detect mis- and disinformation online.

Video and images of high winds and wild weather is emerging online as Cyclone Alfred looms over the east coast. But in between the real and terrifying visuals lurk fakes designed to fool the public. Here's how to spot them.

The federal Nationals candidate for Calare, Sam Farraway, has been criticised for falsely claiming the future of the Bathurst 1000 race at Mount Panorama-Wahluu is threatened by a First Nations land claim. 

Senator Jacqui Lambie allowed ABC NEWS Verify to use inexpensive AI tools to create a robocall with her voice ahead of the federal election — it was good enough to fool some of her supporters.  

Labor has been accused of reigniting its "Mediscare" campaign ahead of the federal election with a misleadingly edited attack ad in which opposition leader Peter Dutton declares "Medicare is dead".

Conservative activist group Advance says it distributed flyers attacking an independent candidate before the start of this year’s federal election campaign to avoid a ban on misleading campaign material once the poll has been called.

News Corp tabloids reported that Labor had issued more than 20,000 visas to the families and partners of asylum seekers who arrived by boat. The catch? It wasn't true, but that didn't stop the false figures spreading through mainstream media and fuelling conspiracy theories online. 

The Logan City Council has about 1,400 cameras, with footage fed into a main control room manned by council staff and police.

Vets are urging pet owners to vaccinate their dogs against the deadly parvovirus, as cases in unvaccinated dogs rise in one regional Victorian community.

A new report by a UK research team finds adults who are more gullible struggle to tell the difference between real and fake news. 

Australia's fire ant authority says "downright dangerous" misinformation spread on traditional and social media is hampering its efforts to eradicate the pest.

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has uncovered dozens of online clothing stores pretending to be high-end Australian fashion boutiques. Customers are sometimes shipped cheap, low-quality goods made in Asia, and sometimes, nothing at all.

"Ridiculous" use of AI and fake social media accounts interfere with local council elections in Victoria.

The outcome of two misleading assertions in 2022 reinforces what many in Australia have long suspected — that when it comes to the facts, there is one set of rules for politicians and another for everyone else.

The Queensland election campaign began on October 1 but the fight against misinformation began far earlier.

Every time you pick up your phone, you have to decide what's true and what's fake. And it's getting harder.