Short animations giving viewers a taste of the tactics behind misinformation can help to “inoculate” people against harmful content on social media when deployed in YouTube’s advert slot, according to ...

Late last year, in the days before the Slovakian parliamentary elections, two viral audio clips threatened to derail the campaign of a pro-Western, liberal party leader named Michal Šimečka. The first ...

Piecing together why so many people are willing to share misinformation online is a major focus among behavioral scientists. It’s easy to think partisanship is driving it all—people will simply share ...

Briefly exposing social media users to the tricks behind misinformation boosts awareness of harmful online falsehoods -- even amid intense 'noise' of the world's second-most visited website. Google is ...