In Sweden, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, European Union, World Health Organization and the United Nations, there is intense research on the topic. In the past seven years alone, there are over 150,000 hits. If you type "misinformation" into an academic search engine, you get about 100,000 hits between 19. The concern about misinformation is certainly growing. So are we overreacting? We have interrogated the evidence suggesting that misinformation leads to bad beliefs and behavior and found we might be. Fast forward to today, and the exact same concern exists around social media. Go back further and there are examples of questionable information recorded and disseminated via information technologies available to the ancients- in clay, stone and papyrus.
Today, we might dismiss this as an irrational fear-a moral panic. It was also seen as a vehicle used to disconnect people from the real world by introducing false ideas in their heads.
The telegraph was assumed to be a means of spreading propaganda that would destabilize society.
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