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...
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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...
Social media spreading 'seeds of doubt' during pandemic
The ability to freely push unproven theories on social media is causing big problems for public health...
A recent study led by the George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy &...
Three GW Research Initiatives Awarded PIT-UN Funding
George Washington University faculty will develop and support three cross-disciplinary, collaborative...
In the United States, QAnon is struggling. The conspiracy theory is thriving abroad.
President Trump’s electoral defeat has shaken American followers of QAnon. International...