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  • Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey | American Anthropologist

    June 8, 2022

    Abstract We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents’ beliefs and self-reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among multivariate models, we found that beliefs, even those without any […]

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  • Even George Washington was a target of misinformation | Poynter

    February 23, 2022

    While it’s easy to consider President George Washington as a Founding Father from long ago, his political milieu of the 1700s had at least one thing in common with today: […]

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  • Opportunity: Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship | Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

    February 16, 2022

    The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) aims to bring knowledge of the place of religion and spirituality into scholarly and public […]

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  • Call for Papers: What Comes After Disinformation Studies? | Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP)

    February 2, 2022

    The title of this pre-conference, “What Comes After Disinformation Studies?”, is something of a deliberate provocation. With an ongoing increase in authoritarian and nationalist politics globally over the past several […]

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  • Call for Proposals: The Mercury Project | Social Science Research Council

    December 13, 2021

    Evidence-based strategies to combat health mis- and disinformation and to increase the uptake of reliable health information are critical to an effective and equitable pandemic response. The Mercury Project invites […]

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  • A Limiting Lens: How Vaccine Misinformation Has Influenced Hispanic Conversations Online | First Draft

    December 9, 2021

    Hispanic people in the United States are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic white people to be infected with Covid-19 and 2.3 times as likely to die from it. They […]

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  • Job Opportunity: Faculty Fellows – Race, Technology, and the State | Data & Society Research Institute

    December 8, 2021

    Call for 2022-23 Faculty Fellows: Race, Technology, and the State Deadline for applications: December 15, 2021 Data & Society is assembling its eighth class of fellows to join us for […]

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  • Video: How U.S. social media conspiracy theories made Europeans skeptical of the Covid vaccine | NBC

    December 1, 2021

    NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny reports on how people in Europe are skeptical of the Covid-19 vaccine due to conspiracy theories that were made in the U.S.Nov. 30, 2021. Editor’s Note: […]

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  • What Facebook knew about its Latino-aimed disinformation problem | Los Angeles Times

    November 17, 2021

    It was October 2020, election conspiracy theories threatened to pull America apart at its seams, and Jessica González was trying to get one of the most powerful companies in the […]

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  • Commission on Information Disorder Final Report | The Aspen Institute

    November 16, 2021

    America is in a crisis of trust and truth. Bad information has become as prevalent, persuasive, and persistent as good information, creating a chain reaction of harm. It makes any […]

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