Facebook will kick out anti-vaccine misinformation. Is it too late?
Facebook pledged to remove misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. This was a meaningful change—...
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On The Media featuring Neil Johnson
WNYC's On The Media featured vaccine misinformation research conducted by Neil Johnson.
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The GOP and the future of democracy in America
Shortly before the November election, when most polls predicted an election blowout for Democrats...
GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics Expands Its Global Reach
Seyi Akiwowo was 26 when she came face to face—or face to faceless—with one of the Internet’s nastiest...
Covid-19 vaccines face a varied and powerful misinformation movement online
Vaccination proponents and misinformation researchers had been waiting for years for Facebook to take...
Worried About The COVID-19 Vaccine? North Carolina's Plan For Vaccine Hesitancy
North Carolina’s Health Director, Dr. Elizabeth Tilson, expects a limited supply of coronavirus vaccine...
Vaccines Won't Stop the Pandemic Unless at Least 50 Million Skeptical Americans Change Their Minds
For all the flak that President Trump has taken over the federal government's response, or lack thereof...
Disinformation on Social Media Is Threat to Democracy, Rappler CEO Says
Maria Ressa says what she’s living through is Kafkaesque.
The crusading Filipina journalist...
Covid-19: why vaccine mistrust is growing
A vaccine for covid-19 could be rolled out before the end of the year. But a worrying rise in mistrust...
Classifying and Identifying the Intensity of Hate Speech
Hate speech is often seen as a binary choice. This is in part due to attempts to automate its detection...