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In the Data-Driven Economy, the Law of the Jungle Rules

Almost every day we get a reminder that the Internet is both wondrous and a dark and scary place. An...

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IDDP-Led Team to Develop Rapid Response System for Online Harassment Victims

As part of the 2021 cohort of the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, a team headed...

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Q & A: IDDP Fellow Rachel Moran

IDDP's research fellowships support projects by Ph.D. or other terminal degree holders at any stage of...

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Misinformation is a global problem. One of the solutions might work across continents too.

Is there something WEIRD about fact-checking?

Much of the research about combating...

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Technology 202 newsletter

Facebook’s admission that a data set it provided to social scientists had serious errors has...

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How a story about ivermectin and hospital beds went wrong

Scroll down to "other notable stories" to read the clip below.

From August 2020 to...

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Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says

A new study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election is likely to bolster critics’ long-...

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Only Facebook knows the extent of its misinformation problem. And it’s not sharing, even with the White House.

In tense meetings between Facebook executives and White House officials tasked with fighting the...

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How an Obscure Green Bay Packers Site Became the Biggest Thing on Facebook

THE GREEN BAY Packers play in one of the tiniest media markets in the NFL, with a small but...

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Facebook’s excuses for shutting down research ring hollow

Last week, Facebook shut down the personal accounts of several researchers affiliated with New York...