The COVID-19 pandemic was fertile ground for conspiracy theories and misinformation on Twitter, and Bill Gates was a frequent target. A new study, which analyzes well-known conspiracy theories about the role of Bill Gates ...
The video-sharing website that bills itself as a YouTube alternative and "immune to cancel culture" has opened in Florida, marking a new home for the conservative-favored platform. Rumble, which also operates in Toronto, ...
Offering a tiny cash reward for accuracy, or even briefly appealing to personal integrity, can increase people's ability to tell the difference between misinformation and the truth, according to a new study.
In 2008, as part of a "nation branding" exercise—an attempt to give a country an easily recognizable identity—the Lithuanian communication specialists came up with the slogan "Lithuania—a brave country". At the time, the ...
Feb. 28, 2023, marks 30 years since the beginning of the Waco siege, the confrontation at a Texas compound that killed around 80 members of the Branch Davidian religious community and four federal agents.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have analyzed more than 800,000 tweets and found that negative emotions expressed about geoengineering—the idea that the climate can be altered using technology—can easily fall ...
"So far as the influence of the newspaper upon the mind and morals of the people is concerned, there can be no rational doubt that the telegraph has caused vast injury." So said the The New York Times in 1858, when the transatlantic ...
Wars are world-shaping. Beyond their immediate human and physical tolls, wars alter the fates of societies and states; of clans, cultures and leaders. They establish new lines of access to resources and influence, determining ...
Conspiracy theories aren't a new thing, and for as long as they've been around they've ranged from the benign to the absurd. From the six moon landings being faked to the Earth being flat, or our ruling class being lizards, ...
Urban planners are fending off abuse fuelled by conspiracy theories about their "15-minute city" regeneration projects which suspicious social media users claim are the road to "climate lockdowns".
