Media reports about a ‘zombie’ virus deliberately misstate facts. What are the public health implications of misleading information?

Most links shared on social media aren’t clicked on at all -- suggesting that most shares aren’t even based on actual reading of the texts.

“We can in a very apolitical way help people gain resistance to manipulation online."

People need to be informed "that monkeypox spreads through close contact with an infected person, which includes sex but is not limited to it."

The team discusses pressing events that say something about our culture, and why it matters. Today, how fake news becomes real news.

“It makes sense for us to care about what other people think, not just to conform, but because we’re looking for reliable sources..."

A new study highlights “the negative consequences of giving airtime to leaders in business and politics who spout falsehoods.”

The "Mandela effect" explains how individual psyche and society can influence memories to a point that they eventually become incorrect.

The court was ruling on a petition against two BJP politicians for their speeches immediately preceding the 2020 Delhi riots.

At a time when misinformation reigns supreme, the cultural history of fact-checking shows who was instrumental in shaping the truth in news.

When internet culture intersects with public health, the line between education and misinformation gets blurred.

Age-old concepts of “khatla baithak” helped public health officials address social media-fueled misinformation.

An effective metaphor for rising Covid19 cases could be “describing a sink that has water dripping slowly from a faucet one week and quickly overflooding the next week.”

Misinformation spreads like wildfire on the internet. YouTube's move prompts questioning tech giants on what it takes to stop this.

Superstitions, wrong perceptions, and the use of unproven methods for prevention and management of snakebites increase the mortality rates.

Perhaps the most critical role of remembering is to hold people in power accountable for their missteps, ignorance — even their hubris.

The platform "has become less popular over the years as the needs of our members have changed," its parent company said.

The platform has previously come under fire for boosting content favorable to the ruling BJP during and after elections.