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Black and Hispanic Communities Grapple With Vaccine Misinformation | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel
March 11, 2021
On an unseasonably warm day in February, two men working with a local community group went door to door in…
TechTank: How Companies Surveil Workers and Ways Employees Can Protect Themselves | Lawfare
by Darrell West
March 10, 2021
Today, under the coronavirus quarantines and lockdowns, most of us are working from home. This transition to a virtual world…
Job Opportunity: Director of Development | Algorithmic Justice League
by Algorithmic Justice League
March 9, 2021
As the Director of Development, you will play a key role in AJL’s growth, leading the design, implementation and continued…
Support for QAnon is hard to measure — and polls may overestimate it | Nieman Journalism Lab
by James Shanahan
March 8, 2021
It’s hard to know how many people actually believe the key tenets of QAnon’s claims, including that devil-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles are…
Webcast: The Battle of Algorithms | MIT Technology Review
March 3, 2021
As machine learning applications move into the mainstream, a new era of cyber-threat is emerging – one that uses offensive…
More Than Ready: Lessons from Women of Color in Public Tech Leadership | Shorenstein Center
March 3, 2021
Join us for a conversation with Cecilia Muñoz and Shorenstein Center Fellow Kathy Pham to discuss Cecilia’s recent book More than Ready:…
Job Opportunity: Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate – The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) | Princeton University
by Princeton University
March 2, 2021
The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at Princeton University…
Michael Tubbs—the former mayor of Stockton, California—on racism and disinformation | Columbia Journalism Review
by Akintunde Ahmad
March 1, 2021
Last year, Michael Tubbs was the focus of an HBO documentary, Stockton on My Mind, that followed his experience trying…
Disinformation Fuels A White Evangelical Movement. It Led 1 Virginia Pastor To Quit | NPR
by Dalia Mortada, Rachel Martin, and Bo Hamby
February 22, 2021
Jared Stacy is still processing his decision to leave Spotswood Baptist Church in Fredericksburg, Va., last year. Until November, he…