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Introduction: How to dial back a disinformation dystopia

By John Mecklin | Disruptive Technologies

A screenshot from a fake news story.

Disinformation watch: How a Bulletin story about self-spreading vaccines was used in anti-vaxxer propaganda

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

The Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Six essential stories on the origins of COVID-19

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

The layered, Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation

By Leticia Bode, Emily Vraga | Disruptive Technologies

Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work?

By Kamya Yadav, Ulaş Erdoğdu, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro, Alicia Wanless | Disruptive Technologies

Meme Warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes

By Michael Yankoski, Walter Scheirer, Tim Weninger | Disruptive Technologies

Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including member of the QAnon conspiracy group Jake A, aka Yellowstone Wolf (C), enter the US Capitol on Wednesday. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Alan Miller: How the News Literacy Project teaches schoolchildren (and adults) to dismiss and debunk internet disinformation

By John Mecklin | Disruptive Technologies

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

By Nicholas Wade | Biosecurity

Herb Lin testifying in Congress.

Congressional testimony: How the Pentagon can fight information warfare

By | Disruptive Technologies

Trump takes off his mask.

Can Trump cure America’s vaccine hesitancy?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

An MQ-9 Reaper flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (Photo credit: US Air Force / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt)

The Abraham Accords effect: more armed drones in the Middle East

By Ali Arfa | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow