SMPA Professor Receives Fulbright Award
Steven Livingston, professor of media and public affairs and founding director of the Institute...
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COVID-19 misinformation was mainly spread online by bots in Facebook groups, study finds
Bots were the primary driver behind the spread of COVID-19 misinformation online, a new study...
Facebook reverses ban on content suggesting Covid-19 is man-made
Facebook has reversed its policy banning posts suggesting Covid-19 emerged from a laboratory amid...
Anti-vaccine movements shift their target to the vaccinated
Myths around infertility, pregnancy and miscarriages have run rampant in anti-vaccine circles for years...
The Gig Economy’s Business Model Is a Racial Justice Issue
As gig economy companies have spent the last year pushing legislation in various states exempting them...
What the Boogaloo Bois and ISIS Have in Common
One is a militant group that ascribes to religious fundamentalism, has been responsible for terrorist...
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on truth, objectivity and the assault on democracy
There’s a real problem facing journalism today: the unprecedented assault in our democracies on the...
Pop-up sites and door-knocking are new tactics in the quest to reach the unvaccinated
Now it’s all about the ground game.
With more than 2.7 million Massachusetts residents fully...
“First Do No Harm”: Effective Communication About COVID-19 Vaccines
With effective COVID-19 vaccines in hand, we must now address the spread of information on social media...
Why Debunking Misinformation Is Not Enough to Change People’s Minds About Vaccines
It’s too new. Made too fast. Don’t know enough about long-term possible effects.
Don’t trust...