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Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Associate | MIT
by Adam Berinsky & David Rand
January 12, 2021
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Political Science, to join Adam Berinsky (Political Science) and David Rand (Sloan School of Management, Brain & Cognitive…
Inauthentic Editing: Changing Wikipedia to Win Elections and Influence People | Stanford Internet Observatory
by Maha Al Fahim, Sean Gallagher, Miles McCain & Nick Rubin
January 11, 2021
The principle that “anyone can edit” Wikipedia has been foundational to the massive success of the nearly entirely volunteer-driven encyclopedia.…
The Bigger Threat Was Always Domestic | The Atlantic
by Emerson T. Brooking & Jacob Shapiro
January 11, 2021
Exaggerating the threat of foreign disinformation made the problem harder to address. As the information scholars Alexei Abrahams and Gabrielle…
“You can’t just give people more data and expect them to act differently” | MIT Technology Review
by Lindsay Muscato
December 9, 2020
Digital contact tracing apps first emerged early in the pandemic. They’d let you know if you’d been around anyone who…
Antisocial is entertaining and enlightening in the age of misinformation | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
by Laura Wasten
December 7, 2020
Andrew Marantz’s 2019 novel Antisocial has never been more relevant to American politics that in 2020. Life is tough right…
Covid-19: What’s the harm of ‘funny’ anti-vaccine memes? | BBC News
by Jack Goodman & Flora Carmichael
November 30, 2020
Memes, often in the form of humorous images and videos, are a major part of how people communicate on the…
How Russian Disinformation Protects Violent Wagner Group Mercenaries in Africa | The Daily Beast
by Philip Obaji Jr.
November 30, 2020
ABUJA, Nigeria—Journalists and citizens in the Central African Republic (CAR) have increasingly become targets for Russian mercenaries in the country,…
Misinformation or artifact: A new way to think about machine learning | Science Daily
by University of Houston
November 24, 2020
Machine learning has delivered amazing results, but there also have been failures, ranging from the harmless to potentially deadly. New…
Facebook Fuels Toxic Content, But Fox News Is Still the Superspreader | Mother Jones
by Kevin Drum
November 24, 2020
Democrats and Republicans alike have been eagerly grilling the CEOs of social media companies lately about their complicity in spreading…