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How to better study—and then improve—today’s corrupted information environment

By Sean Norton, Jacob N. Shapiro | Disruptive Technologies

Peter Hotez at his desk in a white physician coat

Viral spread: Peter Hotez on the increase of anti-science aggression on social media

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

10 must-read Twitter threads on the war in Ukraine

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Emerald Robinson's Twitter profile.

What the hell? Newsmax correspondent thinks Satan is in COVID-19 vaccines

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

A protest against India's new controversial citizenship law.

Fake news epidemic: Coronavirus breeds hate and disinformation in India and beyond

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

A biohazard suit wearing researcher.

AI-controlled nuclear weapons, smallpox labs, and nuclear disinformation: The best of 2019 in disruptive tech coverage

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

A naval exercise in the South China Sea.

A nuclear detonation in the South China Sea? No, more Twitter conspiracy nonsense

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.

The fight over social media’s potent political ads just got more interesting

By Justin Sherman | Disruptive Technologies

Cyber Report: Right-wing social media

By Matt Field, Thomas Gaulkin | Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia

Cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood outside the US Capitol on April 10, 2018, placed there by the advocacy group Avaaz to call attention to fake accounts spreading disinformation on Facebook. Credit: Kevin Wolf/AP images for AVAAZ

Why Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are bad for the climate

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

Photo illustration by Matt Field based in part on photos by premier.gov.ru and www.kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

Ahead of 2020, disinformation and fake news are alive and well on social media 

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Credit: NOAA Climate.gov / Emily Greenhalgh.

NOAA seems to be fact checking Trump

By Matt Field | Climate Change, What We’re Reading