The posts raise questions about funding for certain projects and organizations, often claiming without evidence that the ...

When common sense is promoted as a virtue, it’s not just to celebrate how regular people understand the world. It promotes a ...

Individual responsibility plays a vital role in news literacy. Each of us can choose to depend on reliable news sources more ...

A new study shows that rapid facial mimicry is especially important for the social interaction between cats. The researchers ...

Headlines warning people to throw out their black plastic kitchen utensils live on, as do social media posts ... the University of Alberta, studies the twisting of facts and information. " ...

The release of the 2024 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results has sparked fierce debate among schools and parents, raising more questions than answers about candidates’ performance. Traditionally ...

Dartmouth’s extended winter break, Winterim, has undergone significant transformations over the decades—from a mid-century ...

In a campus conversation hosted as part of a new Discovery Through Dialogue community project, psychologist and author Jamil ...

In a TikTok video posted in early January, Gen Z artist Sujindah intones those words ― practically screams them ― at the ...

Healthcare: Such claims can proliferate quickly, creating widespread misconceptions and undermining trust in legitimate scientific research and medical advice. Social media's rise as a news and ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since he announced that he is pulling his company out of the fact-checking business and curtailing content moderation on its platforms. The criticism ...

a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who acted as an unpaid adviser on Facebook’s fact-checking programme in 2022. “Studies provide very consistent evidence that fact ...