Two months ago, The New York Times asked readers to send examples of election-related misinformation they saw online. Readers responded. In all, more than 4,000 examples of misinformation were ...

Decades of psychological research suggest that authoritarian leaders and their admirers consistently share one thing in common: they twist the truth. To accomplish this, such leaders frequently follow ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned that the spread of misinformation, hate speech and deepfakes is exacerbating and ...

Twenty-one years after Facebook's launch, Australia's top 25 news outlets now have a combined 27.6 million followers on the platform. They rely on Facebook's reach more than ever, posting far more ...

Misinformation about science harms personal decisions, democracy and public policy, says Northeastern University professor David Lazer, who contributed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering ...

Concerns about inaccurate claims related to science and scientific findings have been prominent in social discourse in the United States long before the present day, but recent concerns about an ...

A study by researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health on ways to mitigate the impacts of misleading COVID-19 information found that variations in the designs of prior studies have ...

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Over half of the top-trending TikTok videos giving advice on mental health include misinformation, according to a report released Saturday. The Guardian compiled the top 100 TikTok videos posted under ...

This past July, maybe you were one of the more than 200 million people who watched a video of rabbits bouncing on a backyard trampoline, captured—or so it seemed—on a home security camera. Maybe you ...

Confirmation bias is when people only believe information that reinforces what they already believe. For example, vaccine opponents may only believe information about vaccines being unsafe, and will ...