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Rating news sources can help limit the spread of misinformation

  • Written by Antino Kim, Assistant Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies, Indiana University
Rating news sources can help limit the spread of misinformationWhat kind of ratings works best?Pixel Embargo/Shutterstock.com

Online misinformation has significant real-life consequences, such as measles outbreaks and encouraging racist mass murderers. Online misinformation can have political consequences as well.

The problem of disinformation and propaganda misleading social media users was serious in 2016,...

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