Researchers study disinformation and conspiracies, examining technology, journalism, folklore, and neuroscience to understand how manipulating information can alter minds and reality.

While political polarization and COVID rage across the world unleashing even wilder conspiracy theories, misinformation, and fake news, several teams of experts have set out to fight back against the rise of information warfare that threatens our democracies. We follow award winning investigative journalists, fact-checkers, scientists and engineers in their efforts to develop groundbreaking technology and understanding of the human psyche to help bring societies back to a common understanding of reality.—zaba