Key considerations in digital population health interventions
Digital health technologies (DHTs) have become an integral part of global public health initiatives from encouraging and monitoring vaccine uptake to supporting self-management of long-term...
Monitoring Hate Speech and the Limits of Current Definition
Current definitions of hate speech are inadequate as the basis for monitoring hate speech targeted at groups.
The Digital Services Act and the Brussels Effect on Platform Content Moderation
The European Union (EU) is at it again — engaging in extensive regulation of social media platforms in ways that will affect how the platforms regulate not just in the EU, but the world over.
First Amendment Protections for “Good Trouble”
The more things change, the more they stay the same. This unfortunately is true with respect to the efforts of civil rights activities and the response of the dominant power structure in the United...
The Role of Mental Representation in Sharing Misinformation Online
Fuzzy-Trace Theory posits that people will be more likely to share misinformation online if it promotes gist mental representations that cue motivationally-relevant values. In this paper, the...
Could a Global “Wicked Problems Agency” Incentivize Data Sharing?
Global data sharing could help solve “wicked” problems (problems such as climate change, terrorism and global poverty that no one knows how to solve without creating further problems).
Newer tobacco products might be more likely to use social media as they grow in the global market. This study examined global social media marketing of HTPs.
Building Trust in AI: A Landscape Analysis of Government AI Programs
As countries around the world expand their use of artificial intelligence (AI), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed the most comprehensive website on AI...
Visual Misinformation on Facebook
In this study the researchers conducted the first large-scale study of image-based political misinformation on Facebook.
A growing body of evidence indicates that e-cigarettes deliver fewer harmful chemicals than traditional cigarettes and may support smoking cessation.
