Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WHTM) — Information is more accessible now than ever, but wrong information can be spread just as rapidly as true information.

T he spread of misinformation poses a serious threat to science, public health, and democracies worldwide. In a recent essay in these pages, Jacob Shapiro and Sean Norton highlight the risks from ...

Misinformation is usually framed as a uniquely human failing, a byproduct of social media feeds, partisan politics, and click-driven news cycles. A growing body of research now argues something more ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Amid allegations from both sides of the political aisle that “misinformation” by opponents may alter the results of this fall’s presidential election, Hillary Clinton recently called for the repeal of ...

Late last year, in the days before the Slovakian parliamentary elections, two viral audio clips threatened to derail the campaign of a pro-Western, liberal party leader named Michal Šimečka. The first ...

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 ...

We’re constantly told we live in an age overwhelmed by misinformation. But in today’s America, the greater threat to democracy, truth, and public trust isn’t falsehood—it’s the growing power of ...

(WHTM) — Information is more accessible now than ever, but wrong information can be spread just as rapidly as true information. When it comes to wrong information, our society has used two terms ...

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 ...