A video from a discredited scientist promoting a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories about the...
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Make America Open Again: Grassroots Protest or Astroturfing?
Now that the country has been on lockdown for over a month, with many out of work and all of us trying...
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...
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...
Twitter plans misinfo labels, but are they a good idea?
As part of its effort to deal with the spread of misinformation on its platform, Twitter is...
How Trump's Facebook Ads Strategy Differs From Dem Candidates
Rebekah Tromble, George Washington University media professor and Jessica Alter, Tech for Campaigns co-...
Karl Rove had a novel idea for how to organize President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign....