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There are multiple efforts under way in the US to pass laws that require social media sites to take down "medical...

A study finds that difficulty in verifying audiovisual content and identifying foreign languages make it hard to track false information on the platform.

A look back at the most viewed and shared Factcheck stories from The Associated Press.

Climate myths never seem to die, rearing up to be debunked over and over. Consequently, misinformation researchers speak wistfully of the “holy grail of fact-checking’ – automatically detecting and debunking the fake news in one fell swoop. Machine learning offers the potential of both speed and scale to achieve this. Read more at Monash Lens.

Last week I wrote a bit about the ridiculous and misguided backlash against Facebook over the election results. The basis of the claim...

She's debunked by her own post.

As you may have heard, last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax organization "Children's Health Defense" filed a...

"Fact-checking."

Legislation is open to abuse, can stifle innovation, and is not effective against the complex issue of misinformation. Collaborative efforts to set up fact-checking programmes and voluntary codes, invest in digital literacy training, and develop tech tools to flag fake news are a better solution.

An experiment in Bihar found teaching people to identify misinformation did not make them better at it – and may even have backfired.