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Reimagine the Internet | Knight First Amendment Institute
April 15, 2021
Reimagine the Internet is a virtual conference co-hosted by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the soon-to-be-launched…
Call for Papers: Fourth Annual Conference of Politics and Computational Social Science | PaCSS
by Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS)
April 15, 2021
The conference of Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) will take place virtually during the week of August 19-13, 2021.…
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. | BuzzFeed News
by Pranav Dixit
April 13, 2021
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…
How Newsrooms, Journalists, and Their Peers Can Combat Online Violence | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Elisa Lees Munoz
April 13, 2021
By now, those of us working in news media know what online violence looks like. It manifests as sexist abuse,…
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens | The Guardian
by Julia Carrie Wong
April 12, 2021
Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite…
Podcast: Dr. Atul Gawande on how vax hesitancy impacts herd immunity | Axios
by Axios Re:Cap
April 9, 2021
Nearly one in five American adults is hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, which could make it harder for the…
Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates, advocates say | PBS NewsHour
by Dave Collins
April 9, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shortly before COVID-19 vaccinations began in January at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, officials held…
How Black community leaders put Mississippi on the path to vaccine equity | Mississippi Today
by Will Stribling
April 9, 2021
As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the…
U.K. Community Leaders Fight Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation | The New York Times
by Geneva Abdul
April 8, 2021
Minority communities in Britain have long felt estranged from the government and medical establishment, but their sense of alienation is…