A University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (N.C.) study found that medical boards rarely discipline physicians for misinformation, despite growing concerns over medical misinformation spread. The ...

A growing number of Americans are turning to AI chatbots to get news and fact check during major events such as the Texas floods. Misinformation experts say people should be wary about relying on AI ...

In my corner of the world, it feels like 2020 all over again, experiencing the push and pull between losing someone I love ...

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 ...

A contentious presidential election, two devastating hurricanes, the Baltimore bridge collapse: It was a busy news year, and where news goes, misinformation follows. Sometimes it even precedes it, as ...

With more than 70 countries hosting national elections, 2024 is the biggest election year in history, according to The Economist. But how misinformation impacts elections, especially with the rise in ...

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 ...

Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online. Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the ...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk touched off a round of one of the more ghoulish rituals in American public life: the eager speculation, after an incident of spectacular violence, about the politics ...