Claire Wardle from First Draft and Hossein Derakhshan's report attempts to attempt to comprehensively examine information disorder and its related challenges, such as filter bubbles and echo chambers.
Miriam Fernandez and Harith Alani look at the current socio-technical advancements towards addressing the problem of online misinformation, and identify some of the key limitations of current technologies.
Social media platforms are not the only ones who play a critical role in perpetuating the misinformation problem. Journalists and media companies also do.
Sheera Frenkel, Kate Conger and Kevin Roose from The New York Times write about how the rest of the world is adopting Russia's playbook for spreading disinformation on social media.
How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.
From antivaccine conspiracy theories to climate change denial to obfuscation of the truth about the harms of smoking, post-truth is nothing new, finds Nigel Hawkes
The BBC is preparing to launch a 'public service algorithm' to accompany its Sounds app, intended to stop listeners becoming trapped in virtual echo chambers.
Confirmation bias is when we select pieces of information that ratify and support our beliefs, thereby reinforcing our views and provoking a retrenchment of political standpoints.
