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How we intend to come together at MozFest 2022 to start building a healthier internet for those affected by misinformation and disinformation.

Online misinformation and disinformation adds to the general feeling of uncertainty we are all feeling the last few months. It targets our feelings and emotions and pushes content on us that is false or misleading. Here are resources you can use immediately to fight it.

You might have noticed we’ve been talking more and more about the problem of misinformation lately. That’s because it’s getting worse, not better. It’s time to act!

You asked. She answered. Renée DiResta, Wired Writer and Mozilla Fellow on Misinformation offered to answer your questions about the misinformation problem in the world. Here are your questions and her answers.

The spread of misinformation online is a devastating problem all around the world. The anti-vaccine movement is an interesting place to dig in to understand how this problem operates. We’ve put together a reading list to help educate so you are better equipped to spot misinformation online - on any issue - and fight back against it.

We asked people all around the world to take a survey on misinformation online. Nearly 60,000 people responded. What we learned was quite interesting.