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April 18, 2018
April 17—Jelani Cobb, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center and staff writer for The New Yorker, discussed the influence of history...
April 12, 2018
Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.
Many of the ideas for sifting truth from fiction...
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April 10, 2018
A panel discussion featuring Koa Beck, editor-in-chief of Jezebel; Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate; Zerlina Maxwell, senior director of Progressive...
April 5, 2018
Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.
This talk highlights current research at the MIT...
March 27, 2018
Introduction: Social Media between Utopia and Dystopia
“The Internet is the largest experimentation involving anarchy in history. […] Never before...
March 21, 2018
A new paper by Markus Prior, fall 2016 Joan Shorenstein Fellow and Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Lori D. Bougher...
March 19, 2018
Cambridge, MA—First Draft, a project run by Shorenstein Center Fellow Claire Wardle, has launched a free one-hour online course to teach journalists, students,...
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March 8, 2018
With more Americans turning to social media as a primary source for news and information, the dangers posed by so-called ‘fake news’ are growing more significant....
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March 1, 2018
Speaker series on fake news and misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.
Recent public attention and debate around “fake...
February 27, 2018
February 27, 2018—Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama and Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, discussed...
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February 20, 2018
February 20, 2018—Elizabeth Bruenig, Washington Post columnist, discussed the role of Christianity in U.S. politics with Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public...
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February 20, 2018
Introduction
This research paper examines the important role that “alt-lite” bloggers play in promoting, amplifying, and fortifying Donald Trump’s anti-establishment...