It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that food and nutrition misinformation can have harmful effects on the health and economic status of consumers. It is the role of nationally credentialed dietetics professionals to advocate for and promote sound, science-based nutrition information to the public, function as primary nutrition educators to health professionals, and actively...

The article explores the concept of infodemics during COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on propagation false or inaccurate information proliferating worldwide throughout SARS-CoV-2 health crisis. We provide an overview disinformation, misinformation and malinformation discuss notion “fake news”, highlight threats these phenomena bear for policies national international security. mis-/disinformation a...

Event memory and misinformation effects were examined in an adult male gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). The gorilla witnessed a series of unique events, involving a familiar person engaging in a novel behavior (experiment 1), a novel person engaging in a novel behavior (experiment 2), or the presentation of a novel object (experiment 3). Following a 5to 10-min retention interval, a tester gav...

How have changes in communications technology affected the way that misinformation spreads through a population and persists? To what extent do differences in the architecture of social networks affect the spread of misinformation, relative to the rates and rules by which individuals transmit or eliminate different pieces of information (cultural traits)? Here, we use analytical models and indi...

The advent of the Internet has reshaped the way we communicate and interact in our daily lives. It provides an ideal medium through which we can share information and ideas, form groups, and contribute to a variety of discussions. In this position paper, we focus specifically on the information now available online – especially content from social media – to consider in detail the challenges th...

The massive spread of fake news has been identified as a major global risk and has been alleged to influence elections and threaten democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are engaged in efforts to study the complex causes for the viral diffusion of digital misinformation and to develop solutions, while search and social media platforms are beginning to deploy cou...