There’s a lot of debate in the misinformation research world about whether certain demographics or personality types put you at greater risk of believing misinformation. We’ve written about this ...

A new study debunks claims that a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in Iran was a covert nuclear weapons test, as widely alleged on social media and some mainstream news outlets in October 2024, a period of ...

For their study published in the journal Nature Medicine, the group generated thousands of articles containing misinformation and inserted them into an AI training dataset and conducted general LLM ...

Oct 6 (Reuters) - Twitter is rethinking how the labels it applies to misinformation look and work, its head of site integrity told Reuters in an interview, as the social media company tries to make ...

In an ornate room lined with marble busts of famous scientists, around 40 experts in climate science and disease were hunched over their laptops yesterday (Oct. 25), coaxing a powerful AI system into ...

Think you know how far free speech goes? This quiz puts misinformation — and the First Amendment — to the test.

"There was a concerted misinformation and disinformation campaign around this event that promoted the idea this was a nuclear ...