Social media posts containing misinformation evoke more moral outrage than posts with trustworthy information, and that outrage facilitates the spread of misinformation, according to a new study by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Misinformation and conspiracy theories emerging after major natural disasters are nothing new. But their scale and virality following Nepal’s catastrophic glacial flood has been profoundly unsettling.

Health misinformation is false, inaccurate, or misleading information about health. It is common online, particularly on social media sites. Health misinformation can lead to incorrect self-diagnoses, ...

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 ...

India faces three intertwined dangers that threaten its democratic future: blind loyalty, corruption, and misinformation. Each corrodes the nation differently, but they do not operate alone. They form ...