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 ...

Test your skills at spotting online falsehoods. As Election Day approaches, the best way for you to stop the spread of misinformation is to build the skills to spot it. Artificial intelligence tools ...

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 ...

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 ...

Triangles mark seismometers used to study the Oct. 5, 2024, earthquake, along with two similar events identified by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. The 2015 event shares a nearly ...