It is easy to read today’s headlines about artificial intelligence and misinformation and feel the ground shifting beneath your feet. We are told that chatbots will flood our feeds with falsehoods, that synthetic voices and faces will make seeing indistinguishable from believing, and that democracy itself is on the verge of being hacked by machines. But the growing body of research on this subject tells a more complicated and, in some ways, more hopeful story. Acerbi, Altay, and Mercier set the tone by asking whether we should be fighting misinformation at all, or instead fighting for information. Their point is…

In a courtroom in Miami, on a quiet Saturday, the legal wall around the free press held firm. A federal judge threw out President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a case rooted in a story about the president’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The judge, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles, said the president was “grasping at straws.” It was a blunt, almost dismissive phrase, and it landed with real weight. The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice, which sounds like legal jargon but carries a brutal simplicity: it cannot be refiled, it…