Two Clemson University professors have a question for voters surfing social media during these turbulent weeks before Election Day: Is that tweet or post you’re reading from a real person . . . or a ...

Clemson University researchers are on the hunt for internet trolls, and they want to arm you with weapons to strike them down, or at least, spot their deceitful tactics. "Troll" is the slang term for ...

Comment sections on the internet can be a cesspool of human misery and rarely lead to fruitful conversations. Many news sites have given up on regulating comment sections and simply gotten rid of them ...

We’d all like to think we can spot fake content on social media. But some of the methods used to create it are sophisticated, making it easy for even informed users to be fooled. The good news is that ...

Comments like this one, found on a CNN article about how women perceive themselves, are prevalent today across the internet, whether it’s Facebook, Reddit or a news website. Such behavior can range ...