Inoculation theory proposes that psychological inoculation—analogous to getting a medical vaccination—can immunize people against persuasive attacks. The idea is that by explaining to people how ...

Editor’s Note: In a previous article, Theo Warner explored how digital literacy programs can build resilience against harmful content online. One promising component is psychological ...

A popular new strategy for combating misinformation doesn't by itself help people distinguish truth from falsehood but improves when paired with reminders to focus on accuracy, finds new Cornell ...

Sander van der Linden was working in his office at the University of Cambridge a few years ago when he received a strange phone call. A professor of social psychology and director of the Cambridge ...

Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for false claims about voting irregularities. But misinformation rarely gets severely punished, and it remains an enormous problem in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can figurative inoculations ward off the scourge of political deepfakes? Canonmark/iStock via Getty Images Informing people about ...