After the LA fires, false narratives on social media impacted state policy

Misinformation spread quickly after the wildfires in Los Angeles last year. Some of these false narratives on social media ...
Psychology Today

Social Immunology: How False Pretenses Breach Our Defenses

When trust is misused, boundaries blur and hidden conflicts emerge. Learn how to spot the shift and restore safety early.

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.

In the child welfare system, the threshold at which a drug test is considered positive varies widely from one jurisdiction to ...

Commanders lead league in 'killer' stat Dan Quinn hates

Washington Commanders have killed more than a full game's worth of drives due to false starts, a trend Dan Quinn calls a primary reason for the team's failure.
The New York Times

False Report of 5.9 Earthquake Sends Phones Buzzing in Nevada

The United States Geological Survey quickly deleted the alert, saying it had been sent in error. “This isn’t a good look,” one earthquake expert said. By Erin ...
Mediaite

CNN’s Daniel Dale Obliterates Trump’s False Zelensky Claim With 78 Examples That Say Otherwise

CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale dismantled a recent claim by President Donald Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had not shown any gratitude to the United States, listing a whopping 78 ...
TCTMD

AI-ECG Finds STEMI Faster, Cuts False-Positive Cath Lab Activations

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Artificial intelligence-based ECG interpretation (AI-ECG) outperformed standard decision-making when it came to detecting angiographically confirmed STEMI across three primary PCI ...
Oregonian

People’s Pharmacy: What is the rate of false positive Cologuard tests?

Q. My doctor prescribed a Cologuard test instead of a colonoscopy. No one mentioned how often Cologuard could result in false positive test results, as mine did. So, a colonoscopy was necessary after ...
TheServerSide

False positives vs false negatives in machine learning

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between a false positive and a false negative is that a false positive ...
New York Post

This super rare cancer can give you a false positive pregnancy test — and symptoms as if you’re expecting

It was anything but a bundle of joy. A woman was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer after experiencing symptoms that led doctors to initially believe she was pregnant. But instead of ...
Pew Research Center

1. False information online as a threat

Majorities in 24 of the 25 countries surveyed see the spread of false information online as a major threat. Only in Israel do fewer than half of adults (43%) hold this view. An additional 27% of ...
ministryoftesting.com

False Positive

The dictionary would define a false positive as any test result that appears to show something exists or is present, when this is not correct. In software testing ...