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Archives: disinformation

Debate: Journal Editors Do Not Need To Worry About Preventing Misinformation From Being Spread

A summary of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) debate session, where Haseeb Irfanullah argued in favor of a motion declaring that journal editors do not need to worry about preventing the spread of misinformation, while Are Brean argued against it.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah, Are Brean
  • Jun 24, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 2)

How should we think about the problems of misinformation and disinformation in the context of scholarly publishing, research, and libraries?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 8, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 1)

How do the problems of misinformation and disinformation intersect with the concerns of scholarly communication?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 7, 2025
  • 30 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Is it Over Now (Social Media Version)?

In 2023 we twice assessed the social media landscape and with the explosion of Bluesky over the last weeks it seemed a good time to reassess. How do Chefs use social media differently now, and what are they seeing as platforms of choice or opportunity?

  • By Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Todd A Carpenter, Lettie Y. Conrad, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Alice Meadows, Charlie Rapple, David Crotty
  • Nov 19, 2024
  • 11 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

The American Sunlight Project Wants to Make It More Costly for Bad Actors to Spread Disinformation: How Will They Do That?

How will the American Sunlight Project make it more costly for bad actors to spread disinformation — and what does this mean for scholarly publishing?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jun 3, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Can Inadequate Corrections Turn Misinformation into Disinformation?

Could the failure of a journal to visibly correct known errors in a publication, thereby propagating false information, be considered disinformation?

  • By Mark Bolland, Alison Avenell, Andrew Grey
  • Aug 31, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

It Isn’t Fake Science, Because It Isn’t Science at All. It’s Dupery.

What if even by saying “fake science” you inadvertently participate in a scam? What if this phrase legitimizes fraud, lies, and deceit?  Let’s call it what it is – dupery.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Leslie D. McIntosh
  • Oct 25, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Fixing Instead of Breaking, Part One — Open Citations

With so much broken by the Internet, we may be moving into a mode of fixing things. Are open citations part of the solution, or more of the problem?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 29, 2018
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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