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Communication is central to our species’ success, from facilitating collective action to supercharging cumulative cultural evolution. Yet across human evolutionary history and to the present day, communication carries with it the threat of misinformation and manipulation. For co…

January 6th, 2021 was a significant moment in the history of the United States of America. Protestors stormed the Capitol building over the results of the 2020 presidential election in which Joseph R. Biden defeated incumbent president Donald J. Trump. The Capitol riots were par…

In 2008 social media services gained a great amount of influence and have continued to be used more and more in the EU. Along with this development, the EU introduced many counter- measures to fight fake news on social media platforms because disinformation and misinformation ar…

Latinos, the largest minority in the U.S., face a high burden of cancer, making it important to deliver evidence-based cancer prevention and screening information (CPSI) to them. Social media presents an innovative platform to engage with Latinos dialogically by allowing user in…

Increased internet usage and reach have provided modern society with access to a large volume of information. However, malicious actors have exploited this privilege on the internet for political, financial, religious, and other gains affecting people’s trust in online informati…