At the heart of combating misinformation is critical thinking and recognizing when you’re being spun for corporate profit.
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Setting up shop outside mainstream news organisations and using social media platforms allows for greater creative and financial control.
AI poses serious risks to Holocaust memory through denial, distortion and clickbait. AI-literate younger generations may be our best tool for combating the misinformation it enables.
Some health advice takes root despite being false – even among academics and scientists.
How a bedbound patient and a 73-page study changed the way doctors make decisions.
Fact-checking can take hours or days while fakes can be created in seconds. So, what do we do?
Misfluencers fuel the spread of misinformation by being a perceived as a trustworthy source of information.
Actor Mel Gibson claims that two deworming drugs taken together can cure people of stage 4 cancer.
Two experts answer five common questions about the flu vaccine, with the evidence.
If science teachers embrace history as a lens for teaching complex accounts of science, we open possibilities for more socially relevant classrooms.
Scrapping the Broadcasting Standards Authority raises big questions about industry self-regulation and media accountability in the digital age.
Each study adds a piece to the puzzle of scientific knowledge. But any one study on its own doesn’t tell you all that much.
The rapid spread of AI has pushed an already fragile news ecosystem closer to breaking point.
Information has always been a weapon of war, and misinformation evolves alongside technology.
Why do we trust the wrong people and doubt the right ones? An experiment in lying reveals some uncomfortable truths.
With AI slop and misinformation on the rise, research suggests New Zealanders may be turning back to mainstream news for reliability and accountability.
Even obviously fake propaganda videos can influence viewers – and erode their trust in all kinds of information.
Evidence shows that older adults are just as, if not more, likely than younger generations to believe misinformation.
The word misinformation is loaded, and overused. The difficulty of assessing evidence is partly to blame.
Disinformation is everywhere: AI-based material was even used to generate some of false claims in submissions to the inquiry into misinformation.
Top contributors
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Professor of Social Psychology in Society, University of Cambridge
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication, University of Sheffield; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Director, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Professor of AI and Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington