Misinformation

Misinformation is rife in food and beverage, with inaccurate claims about ingredients, products and production processes, made every single day. And not only can these claims be damaging to the industry, they can also be dangerous to consumers. “Misinformation within this sector is pervasive, with significant consequences for public health and market dynamics,” says Aditi

WASHINGTON – A murder of a US healthcare boss has sparked a torrent of online misinformation and calls for violence against other executives, suggesting a failure of social media moderation that analysts fear could translate into real-world harms. The posts, allowed to spread unfettered across tech platforms, came in the wake of the shooting of

Science & Nature We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of...

I’m old enough to remember when the internet was going to be great news for everyone. Things have gotten more complex since then: We all still agree that there are lots of good things we can get from a broadband connection. But we’re also likely to blame the internet — and specifically the big tech