We live in an information-saturated world and increasingly struggle to sort fact from fiction. This research guide accompanies the multidisciplinary panel discussion held October 28, 2020, with representatives from Philosophy & Religious Studies, Library Sciences, Communications, Political Science, and World Languages & Cultures and explores the harms of disinformation in democratic societies and discuss manipulative algorithms, fake news, dehumanizing language in the media, and how to combat these harms.