In a society where facts are distorted and falsehoods proliferate, individuals are robbed of the ability to make sound ...

Of all of the misinformation floating online ... at least one of five false claims about Covid-19 and vaccines that KFF asked them about, prior to being surveyed. One of the incorrect claims ...

Simpson's death announcement was met with a mixed public reaction, not least because he was largely seen as a controversial ...

Outside its light side lies a sinister trail of misinformation that endangers ... TikTok was alerted to undergo necessary policy changes aimed at curbing them. In an update to its "For You feed ...

Brazil is on the brink of banning Twitter, with its bureaucrats accusing Elon Musk of breaking Brazilian law. The order to ...

Policymakers are right to be concerned about the dangers of cigarette use. According to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found. The patient ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study has found that mRNA vaccines for the COVID-19 virus are not linked to cardiac death in younger adults. The study was conducted using Oregon ...

Misinformation, having played a major role in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, now threatens to erupt more than ever this cycle, as the rise of generative AI and the erosion of ...

Elon Musk's clumsy brand shift from Twitter to X caused a potentially big problem this week when the social network started automatically changing "twitter.com" to "x.com" in links. The automatic ...

During the early days of COVID in 2020, around 200 aerosol scientists publicly complained that the WHO had failed to warn people of the risk that the virus could spread through the air.

Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the ...