Within a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had flooded search results with false information. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New ...

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. In late December 2023, several of Brian Vastag and Beth Mazur’s ...

Do some checking to make sure an online obituary is legitimate and the person actually died – or that it's not a fake obituary for you. That's because scammers are using AI-generated fake obituaries ...

Obituaries for writer Deborah Vankin popped up online in January, complete with morbid images and flattering prose. In videos accompanying the announcements, “news anchors” discussed her death and ...