Automatic subscription renewals may boost subscribers in the short term, but it's a bad strategy over time, a working paper finds.

AI that compares what news media actually reported to what could have been reported can identify biases we might otherwise miss.

It's one again time to banish the holiday-suicide myth, which continues to show up in the news.

New research digs into how the social part of social media can affect what people think about fake news stories.

If you saw news coverage of a study suggesting limited benefit to colonoscopies, consider this message from experts.

Spider misinformation is all over social media and the internet in general, say researchers. The right expert can improve things.

Social media sharers believe that they are knowledgeable about the content they share, even if they have not read it or have only glanced at a headline.

Today, AI machines designed to perform the communicator role are generating journalism independent of humans.

Credibility labels may improve the news diet quality of the heaviest consumers of misinformation, but might not do much for most people.

Except for the "oldest of the old," older adults aren't any more likely to believe fake news than younger adults, researchers say.