Why do older adults engage more with misinformation online, even when they often identify falsehoods correctly in surveys? Benjamin Lyons investigates this paradox using a host of survey experiments and behavioral trace data. Analyses across multiple nationally representative samples show that older Americans disproportionately consume and share low-credibility political and health content—but not due to simple cognitive decline or inability to detect false claims. Rather, this gap emerges...

A man walks into a cult . . .Zero ProofA Culty Detective Noir NovelWhen the lives of a soberish investigator, a viral false prophet, and two watchful siblings collide, the fallout is a darkly comic journey through deception, belief, and the fight to reclaim a stolen life.Trucker Holmes was devoted to discovering the truth. It was his job, and he was good at it. But when a faithful mother handed him ten grand to find her impressionable pop-culture-lo...