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Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature
September 15, 2022
Abstract Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability…
Steven Feldstein
September 6, 2022
Steven Feldstein is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program…
Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme | ProPublica
by Craig Silverman and Bianca Fortis
September 6, 2022
To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram, Dr. Martin Jugenburg is Real Dr. 6ix, a well-coiffed Toronto plastic surgeon…
Trust & Safety Research Conference | SIO & TSF
August 24, 2022
Hosted at Stanford University’s Frances. C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, the Trust and Safety Research Conference will convene trust and safety practitioners, people…
Private security groups regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors | MIT Technology Review
by Tate Ryan-Mosley and Sam Richards
July 7, 2022
When US marshals shot and killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in a parking garage in…
Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown | Rest of World
by Nilesh Christopher
June 15, 2022
On the evening of May 3, the atmosphere at Galle Face Green, an esplanade along the coastline of Sri Lanka’s…