When United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled new dietary guidelines earlier this year to "Make America ...

Still, the message is clear: Current AI language models accept fabricated medical statements at rates that should concern anyone relying on them for health guidance. Even GPT-4o, the strongest ...

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 ...

Cancer misinformation—information that is inaccurate or incomplete based on current scientific understanding and medical recommendations—is an issue many people have concerns about. Some health ...

Beyond the traditional stages of media capture, “flooding the zone” with an overload of information is a form of censorship.

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 ...

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 ...

Explore how AI-generated misinformation is complicating conflict coverage, challenging verification, and distorting ...

In 2020, as COVID-19 began to spread around the globe, theories surrounding the pandemic also started to circulate. One such supposition—as absurd as it might seem—was the idea that there was a ...

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 ...

Misinformation is false information shared without the intent to cause harm. Disinformation is false information shared with the intent to cause harm. Malinformation is true information shared with ...

Decades of psychological research suggest that authoritarian leaders and their admirers consistently share one thing in common: they twist the truth. This is why facts matter now more than ever and ...