Joanna Thompson writes: “In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic rampaged across the globe, the World Health Organization declared that we had plunged into a second, simultaneous catastrophe: an infodemic characterized by the rapid spread of false information. The fear was that such inaccuracies would leave the public unmoored, adrift in a sea of untruth. But some psychologists and sociologists aren’t convinced that misinformation is as powerful as all that—or that it is a substantially different issue now compared with in the past. In fact, they think that we may be prematurely whipping ourselves into a misinformation moral panic.”