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Elon musk jumping on stage at a Trump rally

Trump’s potential impact on emerging and disruptive technologies

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on July 20, 2021. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images)

Why science needs marketing

By Melissa Harris | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Opinion, Science Denial

Hand of robot repairing a bridge

Don’t panic: AI can strengthen democracy too

By Abi Olvera | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Parthenon undergoing renovations

Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year

By John Mecklin, Dan Drollette Jr | Special Topics

AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet

By Walter Scheirer | Special Topics

Robots standing with a nuclear winter landscape in distance

Today’s AI threat: More like nuclear winter than nuclear war

By Daniel Zimmer, Johanna Rodehau-Noack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Kids and families: the latest targets of climate denialism propaganda

By Keerti Gopal | Climate Change

Video: How vaccine “truthers” infect our minds

By Erik English | Biosecurity

How climate disinfo “super-spreaders” undermine climate action

By Matthew Taylor | Climate Change

Watch now—Media accountability in a world of disinformation

By Halley Posner | Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

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