Claim via Social Media In June 2025, viral posts claimed the U.S. government implemented a new policy requiring nonimmigrant visa applicants to make their social…
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Briefly exposing social media users to the tricks behind misinformation boosts awareness of harmful online falsehoods, says new research—and Google is set to deploy an…
Americans have long been much more likely to trust information from local and national news organizations than information on social media sites. This remains the…
A Facebook search for the words “election fraud” first delivers an article claiming that workers at a Pennsylvania children’s museum are brainwashing children so they’ll…
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation…
A federal appellate court temporarily halted Texas’ social media law from going into effect Wednesday while tech trade groups seek review from the Supreme Court…
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Do you want to be friends with this person? Sasun Bughdaryan Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York The first step…
People who share potential misinformation on Twitter (in purple) rarely get to see corrections or fact-checking (in orange). Shao et al., CC BY-ND Giovanni…
False information on the internet travels faster than the truth, researchers said Thursday. … studies on the topic have been limited to case studies or…
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