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Americans' beliefs about politics are as inaccurate and bizarre as ever. Is there a way to fix that?
We spoke with a communications professor about the relationship between trolls and the media.
A new website lets people play the role of propagandist, giving them a more sophisticated idea of how and why fictitious news is created.
The allegations of a leftist civil war are just the latest in a string of far-right conspiracy theories. And as we saw with Edgar Maddison Welch and Lane Davis, those conspiracy theories can lead to a violent aftermath.
Last week, over 3,800 CIA and FBI documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released to the public. To put the release in context, we spoke with John Newman, a leading historian of the conspiracy.
The truth is out there. In fact, it's pretty hard to keep it hidden, according to a new study.
Conspiracy thinking represents a heightening of cognitive tendencies shared by almost everyone.
New research finds a combination of two factors make people more vulnerable to accepting such beliefs.
Researchers discover that conspiracy theorists are no more or less likely to find patterns in random noise, suggesting there's more to the phenomenon than just a need for order and control.
New research finds even a brief exposure to a film that portrays climate change as a hoax impacts people's attitudes and intentions.
Research finds the label no longer implies an idea worthy of immediate dismissal.
Fifteen feet have washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest in the past decade. Why have they been so vexingly hard to identify?
While it's turned into a disparaging term, being a "truther" once meant you were the opposite of a liar.
Professional skeptic D.J. Grothe explores the difference between skepticism and cynicism and describes how fooling some of the people some of the time is a bad idea all of the time.
Whether it’s Osama’s death throes or Obama’s birthplace, a wealth of academic research shows that people believe today what they believed yesterday — even increasingly outlandish conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theorists have already emerged from the woodwork asking if bin Laden is really dead, or if he was dead already. Don't be fooled.
New research suggests people are more likely to endorse conspiracy theories if they would be willing to personally participate in such a conspiracy.
"If this document is forged, then they all are," concluded one probe into a fertile ground of conspiracy fans, about whether Barack Obama was born in the U.S.
The aphorism seeing is believing' has it backward, as evidenced by skeptics who don't believe man went to the moon and contend photos taken by the astronauts prove their point.