“We had to relearn on the fly how to process what quickly devolved into an information environment none of us had seen before,” explained Alex Moore, Factal’s Eastern European editor, who has covered the Russian-Ukraine conflict for several years.
When a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, emergency department doctors at Sunrise Hospital faced a challenge of a lifetime….
Misinformation and disinformation have been cornerstones in the long, complicated conflict in Israeli and the Palestinian territories, but the latest confrontations set a new benchmark…
False information is expensive. In a widely-cited study (.pdf) released a year before the pandemic, an economist pegged the cost of “fake news” at $78…
Factal’s coronavirus coverage began on Dec. 31 CST with a seemingly-innocuous China News Service report about a small batch of viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan,…
Dr. Samuel Woolley has a lot of experience warning the public. The author of the new book, The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of…
Disinformation is always on the move. At first you could simply avoid offending sources, but new tactics have complicated matters, further blurring the information landscape.…
Several years ago, the term “active shooter” was strictly the domain of law enforcement. Today it’s become ingrained in American lexicon, a frequent fixture on social media and breaking news coverage….
On the evening of Feb. 6, Central Washington University police in Ellensburg, Wash., raced to a report of shots fired on campus. The university published a campus-wide alert at 5:35 pm…