Some people talk about truth as if it's personal. They say things like "Speak your truth" or "That's my truth." US officials say that...

Humans are tribal thinkers. Our minds aren't wired to get to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That's not to say...

News organizations are in the business of making money. And making money requires having an audience. That means everyone in the news...

News last month that the FDA has granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine for COVID should relieve the vaccine hesitancy of some...

The answer to the question is "only sometimes." Further, the vast majority of us are worse at it than we think, and those of us who are...

Everyone knows that much of the news is fake. And the main problem isn't disinformation from abroad. Instead, the main problem is...

To say something is possible is one thing. To say something is probable is quite another. The two are routinely confused in popular...

News comes in many different flavors. That goes for fake news, too. Not all fake news is created equal. If you want to know how to...

Last fall, I noted that Facebook took the unprecedented step of censoring certain sorts of content on their site. Posts making false...

These days, I talk to a lot of people about fake news. Many of them want to know how to have productive conversations with their friends...

Two weeks ago, Atlanta resident Robert Aaron Long killed eight people in cold blood. Why? In the aftermath of the shooting, news outlets...

Evidence for empirical claims comes in two sorts: data about a particular case and data for a general pattern. For example, suppose I...

Nearly everyone concedes that many corporate news organizations are biased towards the political left. It’s beyond argument that places...

I'm not on Twitter. That drives many of my friends and colleagues crazy. My editor advises me to use Twitter to build an audience and...

It's going on week three after the 2020 election, and still the incumbent president has not conceded the race. The putative reason for...

Last week, Facebook announced that it would be banning any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust from its platform. Doing so...

Everyone has an opinion about everything. That's not so much a problem. The problem is that we LABEL our commitments as opinions. ...

Deep truths about the world are rarely obvious. The world is vast and complex. And our evidence is often ambiguous.