The Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be...

The Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be...

The Board of Electors to the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (combining be...

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

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The UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN.

Inoculation – an intervention aimed at informing people of the threat of misinformation and the strategies used to spread it – is an increasingly popu…

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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Nearly half of all polarization research focuses on the United States, yet many American findings are global outliers. A globally equitable understanding requires bridging traditional social science w...

ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans

Nathan Cofnas, who previously accused Arday of plagiarism prior to his death, claims he has been suspended "for discriminating against Arday".

One way to guard against misinformation is to empower people to identify climate doom in the first place.

Alan D. Jagolinzer and Sander van der Linden highlight a dangerous trend of influencers who deliberately target corporations with disinformation, called “rage farming.” The authors use United Airlines...

Nature Human Behaviour - Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we...

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02530-4Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we distil six insights for misinformation research to strengthen policy relevance, systems thinking and resilience to attacks.

Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we distil six insights for mis...

Professor Sander van der Linden studies how people fall for misinformation and manipulation. Digital technology accelerates the spread of false information, exploiting human cognitive biases. Indust...

We’re living in a time of multiple, distinct yet overlapping crises and threats. Our journalist, Ella Rhodes, asks if psychology can help us to find a way to understand our strange new world and foste...

Although social technologies are increasingly co-shaping the public sphere, these systems were not designed as democratic infrastructure. Here, we propose a framework for societal alignment that focus...

Ella Rhodes reports on the UK ‘social media ban’.