As the leadup to the 2026 midterm elections begins, social media users — among them billionaire X owner Elon Musk, who ...

Studies in developmental psychology and neuroscience support this. Research has found that when encoding opinions compared to ...

Back in January, Meta made a bold move — it dropped third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram and replaced it with community notes. The company said this change was about deepening its ...

Meta's announcement it will end professional fact checking on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. has left fact checkers elsewhere around the world uncertain about their futures. "The end of this ...

It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook ...

President Donald Trump promoted a bunch of unfounded conspiracy theories during a late-night social media posting spree on Monday.

It’s an enervating time to be alive. There are silver linings, such as his widow’s eulogy, but the death of Charlie Kirk spawned a grotesque debate about his past statements in relation to his death, ...

Every tribe has its myths, and journalists are no exception. In America, one common story goes like this: once, in the prelapsarian era before social media—or before smartphones, or the Internet—there ...

Immersion rods are effective for heating water but can be dangerous if used improperly. Steel buckets, unattended use, or ...

On July 31, the Washington Post ran a story noting that the National Museum of American History, a branch of the Smithsonian, took down a portion of an exhibit about presidential impeachment ...