Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:01am EDT (Reuters) – CNN is in talks to buy social media news site Mashable for more than $200 million, according to a source familiar with the discussion.   Reuters’ blogger Felix Salmon said the deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday, although another person familiar with the [...]

Researchers have recently used social media to track the spread of diseases such as influenza, and now they are attempting to use such technologies to tackle a different public health issue: the spread of misinformation. There is widespread acknowledgement that myths and bad information about public health won’t be going away. At the same time, [...]