While it’s easy to consider President George Washington as a Founding Father from long ago, his political milieu of the…
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Opportunity: Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship | Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of…
Call for Papers: What Comes After Disinformation Studies? | Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)
The title of this pre-conference, “What Comes After Disinformation Studies?”, is something of a deliberate provocation. With an ongoing increase…
Call for Proposals: The Mercury Project | Social Science Research Council
Evidence-based strategies to combat health mis- and disinformation and to increase the uptake of reliable health information are critical to…
A Limiting Lens: How Vaccine Misinformation Has Influenced Hispanic Conversations Online | First Draft
Hispanic people in the United States are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic white people to be infected with Covid-19…
Job Opportunity: Faculty Fellows – Race, Technology, and the State | Data & Society Research Institute
Call for 2022-23 Faculty Fellows: Race, Technology, and the State Deadline for applications: December 15, 2021 Data & Society is…
Video: How U.S. social media conspiracy theories made Europeans skeptical of the Covid vaccine | NBC
NBC News' Brandy Zadrozny reports on how people in Europe are skeptical of the Covid-19 vaccine due to conspiracy theories…
What Facebook knew about its Latino-aimed disinformation problem | Los Angeles Times
It was October 2020, election conspiracy theories threatened to pull America apart at its seams, and Jessica González was trying…
Commission on Information Disorder Final Report | The Aspen Institute
America is in a crisis of trust and truth. Bad information has become as prevalent, persuasive, and persistent as good…
The Mercury Project | Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The Mercury Project is a global consortium of researchers dedicated to combating the impacts of mis- and disinformation on public…