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Call for Proposals: “COVID-19 Recovery: Building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the USA and UK” | The British Academy
by The British Academy (BA), the Social Science Research Council, and the Science & Innovation Network in the USA
5 days ago
This programme invites UK and US-based researchers at any career stage, and active in any discipline within the humanities and…
Facebook sent flawed data to misinformation researchers | The New York Times
by Davey Alba
September 13, 2021
More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted with…
Platform research access in Article 31 of the Digital Services Act: Sword without a shield? | Verfassungsblog
by Paddy Leerssen
September 10, 2021
The issue of research access is becoming ever more urgent in platform governance. Over the past year, dominant platforms such…
Vaccine hesitancy: A roundup of research summaries and survey data sources | Journalist’s Resource
by Naseem Miller
September 9, 2021
Even though nearly three-fourths of adults in the U.S. had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as…
Crossing Borders, Counter-cartographies: Contemplations and Collaborations Using Historic Newspapers | Library of Congress
September 8, 2021
In this talk, Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Arizona journalism professor, will discuss how research involving historical newspapers,…
Opinion: Facebook says misinformation studies miss the full story. So does Facebook. | The Washington Post
by Editorial Board
September 8, 2021
A forthcoming study about misinformation on Facebook will say that false stories earned more clicks than facts six times over…
Thousands of posts around January 6 riots go missing from Facebook transparency tool | POLITICO
by Mark Scott
September 2, 2021
Scores of Facebook posts from the days before and after the January 6 Capitol Hill riots in Washington are missing.…
The strange case of China’s Dr Fauci and life as a science whistleblower | Coda Story
by Isobel Cockerell
August 30, 2021
It’s been a wild couple of weeks for academic misconduct. In China, the media has been filled with headlines about…
Tracking and Dispelling COVID-19 Disinformation | Black Voice News
by Phyllis Kimber Wilcox
August 20, 2021
With COVID-19 variants changing how the nation deals with the pandemic, it is important the public has correct information about…