There’s a lot of debate in the misinformation research world about whether certain demographics or personality types put you at greater risk of believing misinformation. We’ve written about this ...

A new study debunks claims that a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in Iran was a covert nuclear weapons test, as widely alleged on social media and some mainstream news outlets in October 2024, a period of ...

For their study published in the journal Nature Medicine, the group generated thousands of articles containing misinformation and inserted them into an AI training dataset and conducted general LLM ...

Storms veering inland — and rampant misinformation — are testing federal disaster response systems. A home moved off its foundation in Creston, N.C., on Thursday from the rising flood waters of the ...

"There was a concerted misinformation and disinformation campaign around this event that promoted the idea this was a nuclear ...