The spread of misinformation poses a considerable threat to public health and the
successful management of a global pandemic. For example, studies find that exposure to …

Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

Online social networks (OSNs) are rapidly growing and have become a huge source of all
kinds of global and local news for millions of users. However, OSNs are a double-edged …

Widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is substantially affecting the
human condition in ways that are not yet well understood. Negative unintended …

Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both
information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or
highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby politics drives …

Widespread acceptance of a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) will be the next major step in fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties
of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and share information. In humans …