Misinformation: A Natural Part of Life, Not Just a Human Problem

Elephants and birds interact in a shared landscape, illustrating how communication across species can involve signals that are interpreted, misread, or strategically used a natural process highlighted in research on the biology of misinformation (Image: AI generated)

Misinformation is not just a headache of the internet age; it appears to be a built‑in feature of how living things communicate, from bacteria and ants to birds and humans. A new review in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that misleading signals arise naturally whenever organisms share information, rather than being a […]