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FiveThirtyEight: Americans Were Primed To Believe The Current Onslaught Of Disinformation

CBC: Confusing COVID-19 advice is undermining public trust; here’s how to restore it

New Yorker Magazine: Is Russian Meddling as Dangerous as We Think?

New York Times: ‘The Whole of Liberal Democracy Is in Grave Danger at This Moment’

Time Magazine: The Misinformation Age Has Exacerbated—And Been Exacerbated By—the Coronavirus Pandemic

Forbes: Research Shows How To Spot Fake News About Coronavirus

Scientific American: Near Real-Time Studies Look for Behavioral Measures Vital to Stopping Coronavirus

Smithsonian Magazine: How to Avoid Misinformation About COVID-19

FiveThirtyEight: How Bad Is The COVID-19 Misinformation Epidemic?

Globe and Mail: Social-media platforms’ misinformation seawalls aren’t high enough

CBC: The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for May 15

CBC: Mixed messages, frustration with lockdowns fuel some skepticism about pandemic

Science Magazine: Crushing coronavirus means ‘breaking the habits of a lifetime.’ Behavior scientists have some tips

CBC: No, someone wasn’t fined for sharing a car in Yellowknife during the pandemic

CBC: Sask. professor warns against crossing the line with social media shaming

The New York Times: Why Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories Flourish. And Why It Matters.

BBC: Why smart people believe coronavirus myths

CNN: Here’s how to debunk coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories from friends and family

Wired: The Analogy Between Covid-19 and Climate Change Is Eerily Precise

New York Magazine: How Facebook Fact-checking Can Backfire

Wall Street Journal: Detecting Fake News Takes Time

The Guardian: How to stop the spread of fake news? Pause for a moment

Scientific American: How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain

New Scientist: People share fake news online even when they can tell it’s not true

Scientific American: I Heard It Before, So It Must Be True

June 2/20: Fighting misinformation online in the age of COVID-19 (CASOS IDeaS Seminar Series – Carnegie Mellon University)

May 5/20: On the psychology of misperceptions about COVID-19 (Hot Politics Lab – University of Amsterdam)

Feb 19/20: Fake news, political ideology, and climate change (Academics for Climate – University of Regina)

Nov 22/19: Reasoning like good lawyers or bad philosophers? (A Multidisciplinary Look at Knowledge Resistance Workshop – University of Stockholm)