Terms of Disservice Book Launch

Audio & Video, Events, Past Events, Public Interest Tech / By Allie Henske

Monday, June 15, 2020 – The Shorenstein Center hosted an online book launch for Terms of Disservice, authored by senior fellow and co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project, Dipayan Ghosh. The event featured Shorenstein Center director Nancy Gibbs, former Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign manager and HKS Defending Digital Democracy program director Robby Mook, and Politico chief technology correspondent Mark Scott, discussing […]

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Big, If True Webinar: Beyond Cyberspace: Security in a Networked World

Audio & Video, Big If True, Disinformation, Events, Past Events / By Allie Henske

Friday, June 12, 2020 – In this episode, BIG, If True welcomes Lodrina Cherne, a digital forensics expert and Instructor at the SANS Institute in conversation with Joseph Menn, an investigative reporter on Cybersecurity at Reuters and Josephine Wolff, PhD an assistant professor of cybersecurity policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In this moment of

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Terms of Disservice – Book Launch Event

America’s Economic Experience

Access to and belief in accurate COVID-19 information varies, according to new survey

Domestic Affairs, Faculty Research, Papers, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Publications / By Liz Schwartz

The COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States’ latest survey results show decreasing trust in government institutions and the police to handle the COVID-19 outbreak, and increasing partisan divides in opinions about the response. In a new feature of the survey, they found that misperceptions about how COVID-19 spreads and can be

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Resources and Reading on Racial Justice, Racial Equity and Anti-Racism

News / By Liz Schwartz

A list of books, articles, podcasts, organizations, and other resources, curated by the Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability Project, to help better understand current issues about race, and what it means to be anti-racist.

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A Black Lives Matter protest in the wake of George Floyd's killing

This is a Moment of Generational Change for Black People – If We Learn the Lessons of the Past

In the News, News / By Liz Schwartz

This commentary by Executive Director Setti Warren was first published in The Telegraph (UK) on June 5, 2020. We are living at a time of generational change and if we embrace principles from previous movements, we can alter the lives of future generations.

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George Floyd protests highlight the deep racial disparities in the US

In the News, News / By Liz Schwartz

(This article by Shorenstein Center Executive Director Setti Warren first appeared in the UK’s The Telegraph on May 31, 2020.) In February of 1968 the Kerner Commission report was released…to understand the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and provide recommendations for the future. The recent killing of George Floyd shines a light on the fact that more than 50 years later, our cities find themselves in much the same circumstances.

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Big, If True Webinar: Science is Politics by Other Means

Audio & Video, Big If True, Disinformation, Events, Past Events / By Allie Henske

Friday, May 29, 2020 – In this episode of BIG, If True we’ll discuss the politicization of science and technology, looking closely at controversies about preprints, scientific articles posted to archives before they have been peer reviewed. In recent months, preprints have become a prefered way to get new findings into the hands of other scientists quickly,

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State Results of May Survey Show 60% of Americans Support Expanding Vote by Mail

Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Domestic Affairs, Faculty Research, Papers, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Publications / By Liz Schwartz

The second round of a multi-university project to survey people in all 50 states about their opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic response focused on public opinion around increasing access to vote by mail (VBM) for the upcoming Presidential elections. 60% of respondents across all 50 states said they support making it easier to vote by

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Understanding Misinformation on Mobile Instant Messengers (MIMs) in Developing Countries

Disinformation, Faculty Research, Papers, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Publications, Technology / By Liz Schwartz

This mixed-methods research project in Nigeria, India, and Pakistan consisted of surveys, survey experiments, and semi-structured interviews, designed to better understand the spread and impact of misinformation, and in particular of misinformation on mobile messaging apps (MIMs).

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