Groups sow doubt about COVID vaccine before one even exists
A coronavirus vaccine is still months or years away, but groups that peddle misinformation about...
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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,...
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...
Hoping to stem the torrent of false cures and conspiracy theories about COVID-19,...
Tweets Show Americans Are Following COVID-19 Precautions
An analysis of Twitter data suggests that Americans are heeding social distancing and other safety...
Building a national surveillance system
A group of local researchers are hoping that policymakers will look to publicly available Twitter data...
How Does Twitter Shape the Conversation around Covid-19?
Researchers at the George Washington University are part of a multi-institutional initiative to create...
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...
Facebook Unveils Unprecedented ‘Supreme Court’ For Content Regulation
In recent years, Facebook has had to grapple with major content management issues: conspiracy...
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...