MANILA, Philippines — When Jenette Torres Odena’s 3-year-old son fell ill days after receiving a jab as part of a Philippine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and interactive games both improve people’s ability to spot AI-generated video and audio that falsely depict politicians, ...

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 ...