Before the full story has even been pieced together, social feeds are dominated by speculation and conspiracy theories ...

It's been 23 years since terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes in a coordinated attack that killed 2,977 people in ...

As Donald Trump and his Republican allies amplify anti-immigrant rhetoric by promoting false claims about migrants in a small ...

DebunkBot, an A.I. chatbot designed by researchers to “very effectively persuade” users to stop believing unfounded ...

Researchers have discovered that AI is way better at debunking conspiracy theories than its human counterparts. This ...

Rand and his co-authors imagine a future in which a chatbot might be connected to social media accounts as a way to counter ...

AI chatbot DebunkBot has shown impressive results in reducing participants' belief in conspiracy theories, but the success of ...

As fewer children die or are debilitated due to measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and polio, we tend to forget that this is the result of an evidence-based childhood vaccination program.

An AI chatbot was able to persuade people to reconsider their beliefs in conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination, the ...

Hypothesis that reality is an advanced super-computer simulation is backed by philosophers, scientists – and Elon Musk ...

New research published in Science shows that for some people who believe in conspiracy theories, a fact-based conversation ...

AI might help lift conspiracy theorists out of the rabbit hole, but some researchers say proceed with caution.