This Journal of Marketing study finds Republicans react to political polarization by sharing misinformation. The study calls for stronger fact-checking, media literacy education, and less polarizing r...

npj Complexity - How U.S. Presidential elections strengthen global hate networks

While we don’t know how much of Project 2025 President-elect Trump will implement when he takes office, we do know that he has deep ties to the people who wrote it—and we know that its proposals around elections and voting could dramatically undermine participation in the democratic process.

MSNBC and CNN have shed hundreds of thousands of viewers while Fox News viewership has skyrocketed after the election

Podcasts like Joe Rogan’s and Theo Von’s aren’t on the fringes. Their blend of off-the-cuff, Trump-leaning commentary blurs traditional lines between left and right – and offers listeners companionshi...

Disinformation shaped views about the candidates, affected how voters saw leader performance, and generated widespread media attention.

What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government’s response, part of a wider effort b...

In a series of surveys, researchers studied when and why voters put up with inaccurate statements from their leaders.

America has made a terrible mistake. Despite everything we’ve seen from the right, voters have nonetheless moved toward it. Rather than the mandate Trump/Musk/Christo nationalists are claiming from th...

A senior U.S. intelligence official says viral online content spreading baseless attacks on Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was created by Russia.

His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."