When United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled new dietary guidelines earlier this year to "Make America ...

Still, the message is clear: Current AI language models accept fabricated medical statements at rates that should concern anyone relying on them for health guidance. Even GPT-4o, the strongest ...

Decades of psychological research suggest that authoritarian leaders and their admirers consistently share one thing in common: they twist the truth. To accomplish this, such leaders frequently follow ...

Beyond the traditional stages of media capture, “flooding the zone” with an overload of information is a form of censorship.

A new tool that not only identifies diet and nutrition misinformation online but also evaluates the content's risk for ...

In this chapter, we examine the impacts of misinformation about science with the aim of understanding those that most warrant intervention to prevent harm to individuals, communities, and society.

Cancer misinformation—information that is inaccurate or incomplete based on current scientific understanding and medical recommendations—is an issue many people have concerns about. Some health ...

Over half of the top-trending TikTok videos giving advice on mental health include misinformation, according to a report released Saturday. The Guardian compiled the top 100 TikTok videos posted under ...

Confirmation bias is when people only believe information that reinforces what they already believe. For example, vaccine opponents may only believe information about vaccines being unsafe, and will ...

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 ...

Explore how AI-generated misinformation is complicating conflict coverage, challenging verification, and distorting ...

Concerns about inaccurate claims related to science and scientific findings have been prominent in social discourse in the United States long before the present day, but recent concerns about an ...