A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of ...

The promotion of prescription drugs by social media influencers is growing. This type of promotion carries public health risks, authors of a systematic review said. Recurrent themes in posts about ...

Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential to significantly boost the immune system's ability to ...

An SEO crafting a newsletter with AI spotted a hallucination about a March 2026 Google Core Update and decided to publish it as an experiment to see how misinformation spreads. While search marketing ...

Vaccine programs are being challenged by rising misinformation and an uncertain pipeline for research funding, the World Health Organization's immunization experts said Wednesday. And the war in the ...

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Social media influencers (SMIs) can perpetuate the flow of misinformation online because of the unique relationship they have with their followers, research led by Cardiff Business School finds. For ...

"America's Frontline Doctors founder Simone Gold, MD, JD, speaking at the pro-Trump Freedom Tour U.S.A. rally in Washington D.C." We recently wrote about the importance of making science communication ...

Fake and outdated videos and images are circulating on social media misrepresenting the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran’s counterattacks. At least 500 people have been killed in Iran and deaths ...

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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Violence broke out in some Mexican states after an operation by that country’s government killed the head of one of the most powerful cartels. In the digital age much of the ...