Lawmakers: Social Media Platforms Must Take Action Against Online Misogyny
Social media platforms must do more to protect women from the online attacks that too often end their public service careers,...
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Rideshare Users Pay More in Low-Income and Minority Neighborhoods
Thinking of calling a rideshare service? Uber and Lyft passengers going to and from low-income and non-white neighborhoods may...
Social Media Disinformation Discredits Democratic Elections
Currently, the global COVID-19 pandemic, impending economic crisis and national movement against racial injustice pose a...
Social Media Companies Profiting from Misinformation
While the spread of disinformation through social media presents a general crisis for our democracy, the online spread of...
New Map Reveals Distrust in Health Expertise Is Winning Hearts and Minds Online
Communities on Facebook that distrust establishment health guidance are more effective than government health agencies and...
Q & A: How Scams Proliferate in the Age of COVID-19
A recent investigation by BuzzFeed News and the George Washington University Institute of Data, Democracy and Politics (IDDP)...
How Does Twitter Shape the Conversation around Covid-19?
Researchers at the George Washington University are part of a multi-institutional initiative to create an open database...
Unifying Human Conflict using Data Science
A Columbian College of Arts and Sciences professor used computational modeling to prove that human conflicts throughout...
Government Intervention Needed to Address Vaccination Misinformation
Government regulation may be needed in order to address the growing proliferation of misinformation about vaccines on social...
Research Finds Extreme Elitism, Social Hierarchy among Gab Users
Despite its portrayal as a network that champions free speech, users of the social media platform Gab display more extreme...