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Facebook is doing its best to counter anti-vaccination damage done by Facebook

On Monday, Facebook revealed a plan aimed at getting 50 million people vaccinated, the latest...

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Reimagining citizenship in a consumer world

If you're listening to this podcast, you probably don't fit Ethan Porter's definition of a consumer...

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The Future of Politics on Twitter

Politics-related tweets, especially those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, have boosted Twitter’s user...

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Americans have started leaving home even more than before the pandemic, cellphone data shows

Americans have begun leaving home more often than before the coronavirus pandemic took hold,...

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'We are going to have to save ourselves,' Black community fights deadly COVID vaccine conspiracy theories

Name a COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theory circulating on social media, and hairstylist...

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How anti-vax rhetoric sneaks past Instagram’s content moderation system

In March 2019, long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook announced that it would...

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Facebook is finally cracking down hard on anti-vaccine content. It is facing an uphill battle.

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network,...

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The Truth About Fact Checking

Even in Polarized Times, Fact Checking Can Sway Opinion and Eliminate Misinformation.

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The Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts

The Republican Party is the biggest threat to American democracy today. It is a radical, obstructionist...

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Sexist AI is Even More Sexist Than We Thought

For more than 20 years, researchers have documented the subconscious biases people harbor through a...