A dubious link from a friend. A headline too sensational to be true. A video that seems fake but you can't be sure. As online ...

By Laura Gottesdiener and Stefanie Eschenbacher MONTERREY, Mexico, Feb 24 (Reuters) - After Mexican forces killed the country's most wanted cartel leader on Sunday, false accounts of spectacular ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers conducted a multi-part study to investigate the impacts of a single "fake-news" (misinformation) exposure on both political and ...

Fake news generated by AI is often perceived as more credible than texts written by humans. That worries linguist Silje Susanne Alvestad. In 2017, "fake news" was chosen as the new word of the year by ...

Fake news is the deliberate presentation of false or misleading claims as news. Such content can distort perceptions, foster ...

In the eyes of today’s teens, journalism and the media are doomed. In two major surveys of US teens conducted over the last two years, the nonprofit News Literacy Project found deep levels of mistrust ...

The White House just dropped a flamethrower on the Fake News Media: a new public database that catalogs the avalanche of lies, deliberate distortions, and manufactured hoaxes churned out by activist ...

The vast majority of people these days use some form of social media, but some develop what’s known as problematic social media use (PSMU). It’s not yet deemed a clinical addiction, but it does share ...

CNN — Africa like many other parts of the world has witnessed a recent rise in the spread of misinformation. Over the past few years, the continent has experienced a string of events propelled by the ...

HEC Lausanne’s Patrick Haack says leaders “need to move from debunking to pre bunking.” A fast-moving lie can do more damage to a company’s reputation than a slow, careful truth can fix. Executives ...