The paper examines disinformation and misinformation as a socio-cultural epidemic in digital news, focusing on how these types of misleading information spread via social media. It introduces a conceptual model called the “disinformation and misinformation triangle,” which identifies three key causal factors that must be present simultaneously for the spread of such misinformation at a societal level. The paper applies an epidemiological approach to understand and address the propagation of deceptive and inaccurate information in digital environments.