The more we hear a particular claim or piece of information, the more we tend to give it credence—regardless of whether it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One independent researcher, James Agresti, published a re-interpretation of a widely discredited 2014 paper to make untenable ...

The media is flooding us with misinformation. How do we manage it? It is helpful to understand what rational argumentation looks like. Here is the Toulmin model (Toulmin, Rieke & Jani, 1984): Claim is ...

We often encounter history repeated as folklore and vice versa. Firsthand encounters are retold so often, details get lost or rewritten in the process. One particular claim made its way from oral and ...

Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump's social media platform, features an artificial-intelligence chatbot named Truth Search AI that provides answers disputing his false and misleading claims on ...