Fake News

Deciphering what counts as true in our post-truth era.

• By Ben Rowen

What started as a political tactic has evolved into a social virus.

• By Jared Keller

Falsehoods spread faster and deeper into the Twittersphere—and humans, not bots, are to blame.

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

Fake news has become one more way for the president to distort truth—but the worst of what passes for it has little to do with press.

• By Lucia Graves

A new website lets people play the role of propagandist, giving them a more sophisticated idea of how and why fictitious news is created.

• By Tom Jacobs

Journalists trying to cover the regime's brutal crackdown against the Rohingya have found themselves in the government's crosshairs.

• By Oren Samet

The banned CDC words represent the deliberate erasure of certain concepts—and people—from the bureaucratic categories that are channels for state power.

• By Jared Keller

Cognitive ability drives our ability to recalibrate our views after reading a correction.

• By Tom Jacobs

Misinformation is hard to dislodge, but certain techniques can help.

• By Tom Jacobs

Local lending institutions remain trusted sources of information while trust in the media has hit an all-time low.

• By Katie Kilkenny

His ratings were again lowest among women, those aged 18 to 34, and minorities.

• By Kate Wheeling

New research reports we are less likely to fact-check information on a social media platform.

• By Tom Jacobs

• By Pacific Standard Staff

• By Pacific Standard Staff