The 2020 election saw fewer people clicking on misinformation websites, study finds

In the run-up to the 2020 election, people appear to have become savvier in spotting misinformation online: Clicks onto unreliable websites have declined, according to a new Stanford study published April 13 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. According to prior research, some 44.3% of Americans visited websites during the 2016 U.S. election that repeatedly made false or misleading information.