Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management held a large stake in the fast-casual chain Chipotle until 2025, but he never served as its chief executive officer. Social media posts ...

Simply being aware of how digital reading practices shape your brain can encourage new attitudes and habits toward how you consume information.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flooding in Asheville, N.C., caused by Hurricane Helene in September 2024 sparked climate misinformation. Melissa Sue ...

A new academic paper examines how autonomous AI agents could make influence campaigns harder to detect and more effective at scale.

Clinicians debunked common myths and misinformation regarding sunscreen necessity and safety that is gaining traction among ...

State Representative Dave Vella has introduced the Combating Health Misinformation Act, which would create a Health ...

Autism has a long history of misinformation that continues to today. The Trump administration has perpetuated some of this misinformation in the last year. Among other things, officials have claimed ...

Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation’s high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly serious problem: misinformation. In an episode of the CBS cop drama "Blue ...

When you spot false or misleading information online, or in a family group chat, how do you respond? For many people, their first impulse is to fact-check—reply with statistics, make a debunking post ...

The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking program and otherwise reduce content moderation raises the question of what content on those social media ...

Research on misinformation and disinformation has become the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s restructuring of federal research priorities. Misinformation refers to misleading narratives ...

Share on Pinterest A behavioral scientist shares tips on how to make sure we are arming ourselves against health misinformation. Image credit: Anna Berkut/Stocksy. Recent surveys and analyses suggest ...