Sensationalism, controversy, and misinformation outperform factual reporting, eroding trust in journalism and deepening ...

As AI can be used to create misleading images and videos, which can help spread misinformation, it is making social media far ...

Individual responsibility plays a vital role in news literacy. Each of us can choose to depend on reliable news sources more ...

Many lament social media companies dropping independent fact-checking but perhaps “false-checking” is a more honest and ...

Was there a time when people regarded social media in a wholly positive light? It’s hard to remember. The honeymoon’s been over for a while. We still recognize the benefits of social ...

A sensitive period for social learning coincides with the age at which many children use social media and encounter ...

The average teen spends five hours on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. What's different about me is how I think ...

"Facts do not provide common ground because the facts of “the other side” do not seem like facts—they seem fake," writes Kurt ...

Meta—the Mark Zuckerberg-run company that owns Facebook—closed the fact-checking unit on its multi-billion-user social media platform.

The spread of misinformation presents a significant challenge in the civic space, and this last global “year of elections” has illustrated just how easily bad actors can slip through the cracks of ...