Can AI help people resist misinformation? Initial research findings suggest that artificial intelligence-driven conversations can strengthen people's resilience to health misinformation, outperforming ...

Given the ongoing and often heated debate about banning social media for under-16s, it’s easy to assume that young people are the only group at risk of online harm. Misinformation research often ...

The internet might seem like a convenient culprit driving recent attention and concerns about misinformation, but pointing fingers exclusively at the digital age is narrow and limiting. Misinformation ...

Social media greatly increases the accessibility of global news. However, this can mean that inaccurate and harmful information is spread, leading to adverse effects on society. Medical misinformation ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is now run by conspiracy theorists who believe that the American public health system is hiding key data on vaccine safety and who spend their days ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. A March 2025 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Health ...

A new report by Open the Books, a nonpartisan government watchdog, has revealed that since 2021, the Biden administration has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on research related to ...

Misinformation is found in every element of our online lives. It ranges from fake products available to buy, fake lifestyle posts on social media accounts and fake news about health and politics.

Trust is the foundation of any successful workplace, and transparency is the glue that holds it together. Yet misinformation—false or misleading information—can easily threaten both. Whether it’s ...

Though disinformation and misinformation are often conflated, they are analytically different, and the difference matters. While the term “misinformation” may seem simple and self-evident at first ...

The United Nations has highlighted the growing role of artificial intelligence in transforming healthcare, saying the ...