This collection of scholarship maps a rapidly maturing field: the study of misinformation and the search for ways to counter it. At first glance, it reads likea dense bibliography, but beneath the citations liesa vivid and urgent conversation about how people around the world encounter falsehoods, why they believe them, and what can actually be done about it. The research moves from private chat apps in Pakistan to college classrooms in the United States, from refugee camps to high school science lessons, from vaccine campaigns in East Africa to fact-checking war propaganda in Eastern Europe. It is not justa list…

For anyone watching from the sidewalk on a raw Saturday morning, the scene outside the White House must have looked like a strange blend of determination and humiliation. CNN reporter Betsy Klein stood near a metal barrier, holding up a clear plastic sleeve—the empty shell of what had once been her White House press credential. A security officer had just taken her badge, she explained, and handed back only the plastic cover, as if returning a receipt for a revoked privilege. Nearby, Julia Benbrook, another CNN correspondent, told viewers with a mix of defiance and disbelief, “We’ll do our job…