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Game Theory Explains Why Reasonable Parents Make Vaccine Choices That Fuel...

  By Y. Tony Yang, George Washington University and Avi Dor, George Washington University When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being...

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Autocrats Don’t Act Like Hitler or Stalin Anymore − Instead of Governing With...

  By Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles President Donald Trump’s critics often accuse him of harboring authoritarian ambitions. Journalists and scholars have drawn parallels between...

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Covering Health Misinformation: What Journalists Need to Rethink

  By Naseem S. Miller Debunking health misinformation isn’t just about correcting false claims. It’s about building trust, choosing words with care, and meeting people where they are, without...

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Why We Fall for Fake Health Information – And How It Spreads Faster Than Facts

  By Angshuman K. Kashyap, University of Maryland In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information. In addition to actively searching online, they often...

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I Talked to Teenagers About Conspiracy Theories. Here’s What They Told Me

  By Hannah Covington, The 74 This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox....

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Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ to Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts...

  By Jackie Fortiér A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to change U.S. policy on covid vaccines cites...

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A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils With Climate...

  By Rory White on DeSmog This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and appears here with permission. One morning in October of 2024, Fredericton city councillor Margo Sheppard...

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Blogging From the Ground Up: Active History and Working Against ‘Post-Truth’...

  By Fionnuala Braun This post is part of a series, Essays on the Future of Knowledge Mobilization and Public History Online. In August 2024, I had the privilege of being able to attend a two-day...

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RFK Jr. Exaggerates Share of Autistic Population With Severe Limitations

  By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with...

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Measles Misinformation Is on the Rise — and Americans Are Hearing It, Survey...

  By Arthur Allen While the most serious measles epidemic in a decade has led to the deaths of two children and spread to 27 states with no signs of letting up, beliefs about the safety of the measles...

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How Social Media and Online Communities Influence Climate Change Beliefs

  By James Rice In an era of misinformation and political polarisation, climate science is under siege. James Rice explores how social and political forces shape climate beliefs, arguing for a...

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Gulf of America: Rewriting the Rules of Public Discourse

  By Christoph Deppe Scientific investigation into how disinformation affects democracy has never been more important. But autocrats and populists discredit such research, along with any journalism...

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Exhausted by the News? Here Are 6 Strategies to Stay Informed Without Getting...

  By Seth Ashley, Boise State University Political spin is nothing new, and identifying reliable news and information can be hard to do during any presidency. But the return of Donald Trump to the...

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With Few Dentists and Fluoride Under Siege, Rural America Risks New Surge of...

  By Brett Kelman In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have for more than a decade openly defied state...

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Opinion: Misinformation and Disinformation Is Only Getting Worse, and No,...

  By JOHN BOYLE, Asheville Watchdog We live in the age of information. And misinformation. And disinformation. Often, more of the latter two get pumped out around the globe than the former — you know,...

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How to Communicate in a Storm

Below is a tool leaders can use to shape their responses to the storm of nonsense we are and will be seeing in the coming years. It’s a clear six-step process for communicating in our new world. I link...

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Deepfake Text – The Coming Wave of AI-Generated Misinformation

— Recent advances in generative AI models like GPT-4, DALL-E 3, and Google’s Imagen have demonstrated the rapid pace of progress in systems that can create human-like text, images, video, and audio...

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The Cost of Lies: Misinformation Is Worsening Mental Health and Eroding Our...

By Alykhan Abdulla In an age in which information is a mouse click away, Canada finds itself under siege – not by armies or economic collapse, despite Donald Trump’s threats, but by the insidious...

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Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated...

  By Amy Maxmen A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age children from Gaines County were hospitalized with measles. Since...

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Nutrition Advice Is Rife With Misinformation − a Medical Education Specialist...

  By Aimee Pugh Bernard, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them....

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