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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 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
Introduction
This research paper examines the important role that “alt-lite” bloggers play in promoting, amplifying, and fortifying Donald Trump’s anti-establishment...
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February 14, 2018
February 13, 2018— Garrett Graff, journalist, author, and director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology program, discussed Robert Mueller’s...
January 23, 2018
Over the past year, there has been rising pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter to account for how bad actors are exploiting their platforms. The catalyst...
November 6, 2017
Jameel Jaffer, Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and former Deputy Legal Director for the ACLU, delivered...
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October 24, 2017
October 24, 2017 — Nancy Scola, senior technology reporter for Politico, discussed the regulation of tech platforms, their role in the 2016 election, cyber...
