News media scholar Thomas Patterson offers three tips to help journalists avoid being part of the misinformation problem.

The 10 research roundups our readers visited most often in 2018 focus on topics ranging from fake news and school uniforms to the Supreme Court and Olympic games.

“The big takeaway is that it’s actually good to speak up in defense of the profession,” said lead author Ray Pingree.

“If it's not Gab, it's going to be another platform... the sentiment and the ideas fostered by these communities are not going to be fazed by technology.”

How to sort out what’s real and newsworthy from what’s fake as Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina.

Suggestions for journalists to consider in their coverage of de-platforming figures who spread misinformation.

We spotlight six of the most interesting studies of the second quarter of 2018. They examine topics such as native videos, Twitter echo chambers and anecdotes in data journalism.

Claire Wardle, a research fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, created a glossary so everyone has a shared vocabulary to discuss "fake news" and the spread of bad information online.

We spotlight some of the most interesting academic studies published in early 2018, which delve into topics such as fake news, audience analytics, populism, virtual reality and fact-checking.

A new online course from First Draft -- our partner across the hall at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center -- helps journalists use free tools to track down, source and verify information they find online.