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Green explores tech ethics and its boundaries in new paper

Feb 4, 2022

Who gets to define the ethics behind the use of technology in society? The discussion has become more pressing amid controversies related to misinformation, privacy, and algorithmic bias. Ben Green explores this question as editor of a special...

The war against misinformation: Professor Nyhan's technological front

Feb 4, 2019

As misinformation and “Fake News” proliferates via social media, so too do the campaigns aimed to stop them. As the negative consequences of “Fake News” taint the content of public and private debate, the urge to regulate social media companies...

Brendan Nyhan tells NPR that Trump's Twitter blitz obscures the truth

Sep 14, 2018

As President Trump continues to escalate his Twitter attacks in the wake of negative headlines and unflattering books, Ford School professor Brendan Nyhan told a National Public Radio reporter that the president "more and more is calling into...

State & Hill

PhD alum Jennifer Kavanagh explores the rot that threatens the marketplace of ideas

May 9, 2018

“Fake news!” Left and right raise the cry, and often, both are at least partially correct. But what is the source and substance of the fakery? And why is there so much of it now? Alumna Jennifer Kavanagh (PhD ’10) and her colleagues at the...

“Trump, Twitter and Fake News: How Journalists Can Build Credibility by Opening Up Their Work” with David Fahrenthold

Oct 26, 2017, 2:30-4:00 pm EDT

Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post offers suggestions for both reporters and news consumers on navigating this new era. He will discuss how journalists can open up their own reporting process through social media, show the public the work that underlies their stories and invite readers in as co-collaborators.

PUBPOL 750.308

PUBPOL 750.308: Topics: Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories about Politics and Public Policy

Why do people hold false or unsupported beliefs about politics and public policy and why are so those beliefs so hard to...