“You are probably thinking that, as the reader of a serious national newspaper, you would not be fooled so easily, but [Sander] Van der Linden explains clearly why we are all vulnerable. We all have a ...

Inoculation theory proposes that psychological inoculation – analogous to getting a medical vaccination – can immunize people against persuasive attacks. The idea is that by explaining to people how ...

Bingbing Zhang receives funding from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and ...