Misinformation is not a new problem, but there are plenty of indications that the advent of social media has made things worse. Academic researchers have responded by trying to understand the scope of ...

Governments, public health authorities, and social media platforms have employed various measures to counter misinformation that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The effectiveness of those ...

Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also have unique strengths to build resilience. In a new ...

To study the effects of misinformation on attitudes, some social science experiments expose participants to false, misleading, or dangerous information. Most Institutional Review Boards require that ...

Most Americans are aware of fake news and misinformation. In a new study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania sought to uncover whether the threat of misinformation drives Americans to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2024, Nessa Kiani was a research data scientist at the University of California, Irvine, spending her free time building an ...

When United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled new dietary guidelines earlier this year to “Make America Healthy Again,” they received a mixed response. As associate dean of AI ...

Australia's fire ant eradication program's slow response to online misinformation left it open to "anti-government narratives", an independent review has found. The invasive species has infested ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2020, as many Black people around the world fought both anti-Black racism and COVID-19, the Black press in the US was dealing ...