The Emails Promising Coronavirus-Protecting Masks Seemed Too Good To Be True. They Were.
Ray Shell visited a grocery store in North Carolina in early April and noticed nearly every customer was wearing a mask. He...
IDDP in the News
Hoping to stem the torrent of false cures and conspiracy theories about COVID-19, Facebook announced Thursday it would begin...
Tweets Show Americans Are Following COVID-19 Precautions
An analysis of Twitter data suggests that Americans are heeding social distancing and other safety recommendations during the...
Building a national surveillance system
A group of local researchers are hoping that policymakers will look to publicly available Twitter data for hints about whether...
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...
Members of Sanders’s Online Army Ready to Fight On
With the odds quickly growing against Sen. Bernie Sanders’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, some in his army...
Facebook Unveils Unprecedented ‘Supreme Court’ For Content Regulation
In recent years, Facebook has had to grapple with major content management issues: conspiracy theorists and politicians...
Donald Trump’s coronavirus advice just might kill us
This is what Donald Trump’s critics feared most. A nation on the brink of emergency. A moment when his half-truths and...
Twitter plans misinfo labels, but are they a good idea?
As part of its effort to deal with the spread of misinformation on its platform, Twitter is experimenting with adding colored...
Twitter isn’t real life. But for Sanders fans, it’s a powerful tool.
The Democratic party is a progressive party,” Elizabeth Warren’s official account tweeted last week, “even if there are a lot...