Black Americans stay informed through a variety of sources, with national and local news outlets, interpersonal connections, and social media all playing large roles. While social media is one of the ...

To evaluate whether health information you’ve found online is reliable, you can consider its sources, evaluate it for bias, and check it against what trustworthy sources are saying on the topic.

Reliable health information online uses high quality, recent, peer-reviewed research. People should look for balanced information and site transparency and avoid websites that use sensationalism or ...

With the sheer volume of information that we’re bombarded with on a daily basis – and with the pervasiveness of fake news and social media bubbles – the ability to look at evidence, evaluate the ...

In 2010, a single sentence on a German Wikipedia entry sparked a discussion longer than most novels: Should the tallest building in Vienna, the Donauturm, be classified as a “TV tower”? What appeared ...

Alexa Lee is STAT’s newsletter strategist. The era of wellness content — and its frumpier, under-resourced sibling health education content — has arrived in the online influencer space with aplomb.

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

Vast changes have occurred in the past 25 years with respect to how we access information. In short, the internet has made it much easier. With that said, all that is available isn’t necessarily true, ...

This week, Poynter is publishing installments from “Shut Out: Strategies for good journalism when sources dismiss the press,” a report from a symposium by the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and ...

Vast changes have occurred in the past 25 years with respect to how we access information. In short, the internet has made it much easier. With that said, all that is available isn’t necessarily true, ...