Zach Stern: What prompted you to start Project DATA?
Young Mie Kim: For almost my entire career, I have been studying passionate publics—people, like those who care about the abortion issue because of their religious values, who care about political issues because of particular values, identities, or interests…
Brown Political Review
Over the past several years, disinformation, or the intentional deployment of false information for malicious ends, has emerged as a critical threat to public discourse and national unity. Events like Operation Jade Helm demonstrate just how quickly something ordinary can morph — online, and in people’s minds — into something extraordinary.
Military Times
COVID-19 vastly accelerated vaccine skepticism, such that even routine childhood immunizations, including shots that had largely eliminated measles, are now being questioned. Watch a recent demonstration that reveals how viral spread actually happens.
Aspen Ideas Health
Anyone who has ever been on a job hunt knows that it is often difficult to find out what a new position might pay. That is about to change.
Los Angeles Times
The dire state of local journalism in the US has been well documented in recent years, as the closure of hundreds of local newspapers has created American “news deserts” where people struggle for information on local politics and happenings. It also created an opening. The Guardian
Read MoreTikTok, the flagship app of the Chinese company Bytedance, recently surpassed Google and Facebook as the most popular site on the internet in 2021, and is expected to reach more than 1.8 billion users by the end of 2022.
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Election officials in Arizona’s largest county won’t soon forger #SharpieGate — the social media uproar that emerged after the 2020 election based on the false claim that Sharpie pens provided at the polls would ruin ballots before they were counted. The state now faces a repeat of the same false theories heading to next week’s primary election. Associated Press
Read MoreMigrants undertaking the perilous journey to the U.S. are overwhelmingly dependent on Facebook and WhatsApp, yet the platforms’ owner, Meta, has done little to stop dangerous misinformation targeting them, according to a new survey of migrants headed to the U.S. Tech Transparency Project
Read MoreWe hear a lot of talk these days about how truth is threatened in the age of misinformation. I understand that misinformation is a terrible problem, and that it has downstream effects on science, trust, institutions, our society and just about everything else that we care about. Deseret News
Read MoreThe thread is convoluted, but it boils down to this: Online trolls fed by professional “misinformationists” insist the Buffalo grocery store shooting was a false flag operation orchestrated by U.S. federal agents, who trained the shooter and arranged the attack as a means of rekindling public calls for gun control. Crazy, right? On many levels. Fortune
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