fake news

Fake news causes lasting reputational harm to businesses even after corrections, with trusted brands found to be most at risk.

Study finds Greek and Portuguese Instagram users differ in how they assess fake news, with cultural factors shaping their digital trust and sharing habits.

Fake news stories that focus on the future are more likely to be shared on X due to human psychological tendencies.

Fake news can harm a company’s reputation by shaping how people think others perceive it, even when they recognise it as false.

Understanding the interplay between cultural identity and information processing on social media platforms is more crucial than ever.

Overconfidence among voters makes the negative effects of fake news even worse, new research from the Vienna University of Economics and Business has found.

Understanding rhetoric and mental health ethics is crucial for protecting vulnerable people from harmful language and misguided state policies.

Researchers may have found the biggest influencer in the spread of fake news: social platforms’ structure of rewarding users for habitually sharing information.

The less the participants believed in the existence of facts, the more difficult it was for them to distinguish true statements from false ones.

Empathy is a more potent weapon than facts when combatting fake news online.

People with high levels of emotional intelligence are less likely to be susceptible to ‘fake news’, according to research at the University of Strathclyde.

esearchers at Uppsala University have developed a digital self-test that trains users to assess news items, images, and videos presented on social media.

New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that artificial intelligence can help form accurate news assessments.

People who receive reminders of past misinformation may form new factual memories with greater fidelity.

We owe our evolutionary success to culture, our unique ability to receive, trust and act on stories we get from others, and so accumulate a shared view about the world.