In a Media Matters study, TikTok failed to detect 70% of election misinformation uploaded to its platform from a dummy ...

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In March, a photo of former US President Trump embracing a group of smiling Black voters started circulating online. While the hyperrealistic image initially fooled swathes of social media users, many ...

IMAGE: Keith Giles [MidJourney] As novelist and comedian Mark Twain once said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” Today, in the world of social ...

Can AI help people resist misinformation? Initial research findings suggest that artificial intelligence-driven conversations can strengthen people's resilience to health misinformation, outperforming ...

Online misinformation that can fuel political violence and disrupt elections is a leading problem (McQuade 2024) of our time—an issue that technologists and policy makers widely discuss, but poorly ...

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In this podcast episode, experts offer up tips and tools you can use to help spot misinformation. With the increase of misinformation and disinformation on the internet and social media, our brains ...

The internet might seem like a convenient culprit driving recent attention and concerns about misinformation, but pointing fingers exclusively at the digital age is narrow and limiting. Misinformation ...

Social media greatly increases the accessibility of global news. However, this can mean that inaccurate and harmful information is spread, leading to adverse effects on society. Medical misinformation ...

Q: How did the committee define misinformation about science? A: Even as research in this field has grown in recent years, there has been a lack of a consistent definition. Research on misinformation ...