A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation about life-saving jabs that still ...

Misinformation can lead to socially detrimental behavior, which makes finding ways to combat its effects a matter of crucial public concern. A new paper by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy ...

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 ...

Misinformation has become an epidemic in the Internet age. It undermines interpersonal trust, acerbates political polarization, threatens social order, and creates fear and uncertainty. The damaging ...

The misinformation effect describes how exposure to inaccurate or leading post-event information can alter an eyewitness’s recollection of an original event. Memory is inherently reconstructive, ...

This study examines the relationship between physical distance from the epicenter and online misinformation sharing behavior, along with the underlying mechanisms involving emotions and social media ...

Cancer falsehoods spread fast, feel compelling, and cost lives. The fix isn't more facts, it's understanding why people ...

Researchers have long known about a phenomenon called the hostile media effect — the perception by people that the media is prejudiced against them. But researchers are now studying what they call the ...

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.

Effective population level vaccination campaigns are fundamental to public health. Countercampaigns, which are as old as the first vaccines, can disrupt uptake and threaten public health globally.

If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a skeptic’s claim could shift your views. Our new research has produced worrying findings. Climate ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – 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 ...