A study co-authored by APPC Director Dolores Albarracín identifies three characteristics that help determine when conspiracy beliefs are most likely to shape real-world behavior.

FactCheck.org has been awarded the Society of Professional Journalists' 2025 Award for Fact Checking for articles fact-checking President Donald Trump's claims about tariffs.

Penn researchers led by PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín studied the persuasive impact of messages expressing attitudes, describing behaviors, or combining both.

The Center on Representative Government received APPC's 2026 Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics Award to create civic education materials for youth.

FactCheck.org received a National Headliner Award in government and political beat reporting for a series on how Project 2025 was implemented across the U.S. government.

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research honored Kathleen Hall Jamieson for outstanding service in public health and educating the public about disease prevention.

FactCheck.org, a project of APPC, has won the popular-vote People's Voice Award as best news and politics site at the 30th Annual Webby Awards.

FactCheck.org has been nominated in the 30th Annual Webby Awards for best news and politics website or mobile site.

In a letter to Nature, APPC research director Dan Romer and former postdoc Ivy Defoe discuss the phenomenon that has been labeled "teensplaining."

APPC celebrates political scientist Matthew Levendusky's joint appointment to the Annenberg School for Communication in addition to the Department of Political Science.