Vaccine-preventable illnesses return as inoculation declines
New York recently declared a state of emergency over evidence that polio is spreading in communities....
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Alex Jones' defamation trials show the limits of deplatforming for a select few
A fresh defamation trial for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that began this week could offer...
Can Fact-Checking Counter Misinformation?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an era of misinformation. From social media to cable news, the spread of...
Twitter whistleblower unlikely to spur congressional action
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday featuring former Twitter security chief turned...
Twitter can’t afford to be one of the world’s most influential websites
In the weeks leading to Twitter’s launch of a fact-checking program to combat misinformation, experts...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While President Biden warned the nation about threats to democracy in a prime-time address on...
FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search ignites the right
The FBI’s execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago has driven outsized conservative social...
Privacy law's hidden roadblock: Americans' beliefs
Americans' conception of privacy itself, as much as a deadlocked Congress, stands in the way of...
As global health threats evolved, the CDC didn’t
Vanquishing disease is in the DNA of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency...
Q & A: IDDP Fellow Madeline Jalbert
IDDP's research fellowships support projects by Ph.D. or other terminal degree holders at any stage of...