Nature Human Behaviour - Appel et al. found that deceptive networks reached over 37 million Facebook and 3 million Instagram users during the 2020 US elections, with the majority of this exposure...

Despite widespread concerns over AI-generated misinformation, its impact on people’s reasoning and the effectiveness of countermeasures remain unclear. This study examined whether a pre-emptive, sourc...

The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality

Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

Join Skyler Johnson for an event that will empower participants with the knowledge and tools needed to address impacts, challenges and opportunities of cancer misinformation.

Kozyreva et al. review evidence from individual-level interventions for fighting online misinformation featured in 81 scientific papers. They classify the interventions in nine different types and sum...

This event is part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School and the NULab at Northeastern Unive...

With many of humanity's most dire challenges, the spread of misinformation is a problem that we have created for ourselves. Suitably, effective solutions to this problem require an understanding of th...