Every year, American parents spend hundreds of millions of dollars on beauty pageants. With over a quarter million young participants annually, entry fees, training fees, costume and promotional costs, and more pour into this industry. With the rising cost of entry...

The saying goes that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. When a satirical article goes viral, this is exactly what happens, even if that’s not what the author intended. Have you ever read a headline in your Facebook feed that sounds ridiculous but...

As online dating and dating apps grow in popularity, often spawning successful relationships, it's easy to fall into the trap of letting your guard down. It's easy for a scammer to pass him or herself off as someone else online. That's why online dating scams are...

In 2018, all of the major mobile phone service providers in the United States were caught selling location data to a company called LocationSmart. T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint would sell the real-time location data of their customers to this data...

There are many circumstances in which we reveal a lot of personal information that we take for granted. One of these circumstances is applying for a new job. The FTC has gone after fake military recruitment sites that harvest personal information to sell for profit....

If 2018 has taught us anything, the lesson has been to never take information at face value. For 2019, let's make the resolution to keep a skeptical but open mind, be aware of our own preconceptions of what "the truth" looks like, and hone our own investigative skills...

It's always better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission, the saying goes. This is false and detrimental when it comes to sharing information without first fact-checking to see whether or not it's true. Always check before you share information. You never know how...