There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories and their reasons for doing so . But there’s a wr...

  Truth matters, and it's your moral responsibility to find it. Trustworthiness matters, and it's your moral duty to insist on it.  ...

  Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing opinions on COVID-19 risk or abortion but ba...

  At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media given the intensity of the presidential elec...

  Facebook has been quietly experimenting with reducing the amount of political content it puts in users’ news feeds. The move is a tacit a...

  The problem of misinformation isn’t going away. Internet platforms like Facebook and Twitter have taken some steps to curb its spread and...

  As the turmoil of the Trump era drew to a close with an attack on the U.S. Capitol, planned on both mainstream and fringe digital platform...

  You might have fallen for someone’s attempt to disinform you about current events. But it’s not your fault.   Even the most well-intenti...

  “Climate change is a hoax,” my cousin said during a family birthday party. “I saw on Twitter it’s just a way to get people to buy expensiv...

  Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram started out as a way to connect with friends, family, and people of interest....

  Propagandists are already working to sow disinformation and social discord in the run-up to the November elections.   Many of their effo...

  There are some things that are obviously First Amendment issues and there are others that just as obviously aren’t. Did you get arrested f...

  How about a new New Year’s resolution: To more appreciate a free press, in whatever brand, flavor, or medium you prefer.   In that spiri...

  The majority of Americans consider fake news and misinformation to be serious threats to democracy — and that fear may actually be making ...

  There is a lot of “libel talk” — and filing of mega-million-dollar lawsuits — in the air, and as long as such stays there, the people’s ab...

  Unlike most of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” designees since 1927, we can be certain none of those featured this year on that iconi...

  “Misinformation” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year. The site defines it as “false information that is spread, regardless of whether the...

  Russia is in the business of mind control.   They’re not doing it through sinister headgear, satellite interference, or dream invasion l...

  To err is human — but, it would seem, corrections are not seen by many as divine.   Inevitably, when journalists in all kinds of mediums...

  As plainly and clearly as one can say or write this:   Journalism and journalists are not “enemies of the people.”   A free press brin...