This study challenges the notion that fake news easily shifts behaviors, showing minimal effects from single exposures, ...

Tang: The important thing to note here is that one needs to debunk fake news faster than the speed at which it spreads.

Social media can serve a lot of good, but we are also seeing rapidly expanding evidence of its harmful effects on society, particularly in the spread of misinformation. And the shocking assassination ...

Television and social media continued to be the main source of information for 72 per cent of the public, with 44 per cent stressing that misinformation and fake news were a major concern, although 42 ...

Brazilian House Speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Tuesday that lawmakers are currently finalizing the text of a bill targeting those that finance "fake news" attacks on social media sites, adding that it ...