Tag: Social media and democracy
4 ways to protect yourself from disinformation
Elizabeth Stoycheff, Wayne State University
You might have fallen for someone’s attempt to disinform you about current events. But it’s not your fault.
Even the most...
Livestreamed massacre means it’s time to shut down Facebook Live
Jennifer Grygiel, Syracuse University
When word broke that the massacre in New Zealand was livestreamed on Facebook, I immediately thought of Robert Godwin Sr. In...
Clean up your cyber-hygiene – 6 changes to make in the...
Elissa Redmiles, University of Maryland
Data breaches, widespread malware attacks and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018.
As technologies change, so does...
Threats remain to US voting system – and voters’ perceptions of...
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
As the 2018 midterms proceed, there are still significant risks to the integrity of the voting system –...
How Australia can help the US make democracy harder to hack
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University and Matthew Sussex, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
In the drumbeat of reports about Russian attempts to undermine...
Facebook begins to shift from being a free and open platform...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
When Facebook recently removed several accounts for trying to influence the 2018 midterm elections, it was the company’s latest move...
Profit, not free speech, governs media companies’ decisions on controversy
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
For decades, U.S. media companies have limited the content they’ve offered based on what’s good for business. The decisions by...
EXPLORING NATURE
In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like...
Christopher Palma, Penn State
If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter...
