Study suggests our brains are predisposed to accept falsehoods and conspiracy theories
Researchers examine the rhetoric of infamous dictators like Mussolini, Stalin, Putin, and…
French researchers explain why disinformation thrived during the global pandemic
Their findings appeared in Nature Human Behavior.
Treating the COVID-19 infodemic as an epidemic may help combat viral misinformation
The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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