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How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory | The New Yorker
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
June 19, 2021
Remote work turned out to be advantageous for people looking to leak information to reporters. Instructions that once might have…
Vaccine hesitancy, and what we can do about it | Center for Countering Digital Hate
by Daniel Allington
May 14, 2021
Delaying or avoiding vaccination costs lives, and yet, for many years, increasing numbers of people have been doing one or…
Peru’s surprise presidential front runner has fewer than 8,000 Twitter followers | Rest of World
by Jimena Legard
April 16, 2021
When CNN announced the results for the first round of Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, April 11, the image they…
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.…
Researchers developed an AI system that predicts the likelihood people will spread misinformation based on words they use | Poynter
by Laura Weffer
December 29, 2020
University of Sheffield researchers Yida Mu and Dr. Nikos Aletra report they’ve developed an artificial intelligence system to help identify…
Misinformation, police mistrust stir unrest in Minneapolis | PBS NewsHour
by Amy Forliti & Jeff Baenen
September 1, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS — After a Black man fatally shot himself on a pedestrian plaza in downtown Minneapolis, rumors of another police…
Cultural factors are behind disinformation pandemic: why this matters | The Conversation
by Martin LaMonica
July 7, 2020
The prevalence of disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic has prompted Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization…
NULab: Jen Schradie and Brooke Foucault Welles
October 16, 2019
"Please join us for a book discussion and signing featuring Jen Schradie, Observatoire sociologique du changement (OSC) at Sciences Po,…
Sarah Sobieraj
February 11, 2019
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