From lies about election fraud to QAnon conspiracy theories and vaccine falsehoods, misinformation runs through our democracy. And it's dangerous. Flooded with misinformation, people swallowed…
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A child whose lifeless body was carefully placed in a cave in East Africa about 78,300 years ago has made a great return. Investigators who…
Some viruses that kill bacteria explain their genetic instructions in a different DNA alphabet. More than 40 years ago, scientists in Russia reported that a…
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Fighting misinformation online is an ongoing challenge for big technologies and is especially difficult when you are at a discussion table with millions of people…
Bad information is not new. Propagandists and scammers have been selling their brand of proverbial snake oil for years, all to bend people’s thinking to…
As about 2 million people a day across the United States receive a dose of one of three COVID-19 vaccines, cases of the disease are…