Mis/disinformation research has boomed in recent years

The number of scientific journal articles with "misinformation" or "disinformation" in the title or abstract has increased sharply in recent years, according to data from Semantic Scholar.

Notes Semantic Scholar began in 2015 as a search engine for computer science, geoscience and neuroscience research, and now includes over 200 million articles from all fields of science.
Source: Data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved and shared by Jevin West and Jason Portenoy Credit: Kaitlyn Radde and Huo Jingnan/NPR