How Viktor Orbán became Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the EU

From liberal dissident to MAGA darling, the transformation of the prime minister who brought Budapest back into Moscow’s orbit.

Truth, or misinformation? A statistician explains the challenge of assessing evidence

The word misinformation is loaded, and overused. The difficulty of assessing evidence is partly to blame.

Fake news on everything from whales to wind farms: Australia is flooded with climate misinformation

Disinformation is everywhere: AI-based material was even used to generate some of false claims in submissions to the inquiry into misinformation.

Fact check: Pierre Poilievre’s misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast disrespects Canadians

By promoting politically expedient misinformation on a show like Joe Rogan’s, Pierre Poilievre appears intent on pushing dangerous and misleading claims that resonate only with his base.

Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe

Because of the way generative AI works, there is no real way to prevent false information being presented as truth – or to correct it permanently.

Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential

False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool to prevent and treat it.

Will Europe’s populists dump Trump?

Britain’s Labour Party stares into the abyss in its Welsh heartland

In the old coalfields of south Wales, Britain’s center-left establishment faces being crushed by a nationalist left and populist right. POLITICO went to find out why.

Epstein files reveal the power – and peril – of online sleuths doing the government’s work

Online sleuths are on a mission to decode the massive Epstein file dump. The resulting chaos shows there’s a fine line between genuine clues and conspiracy.