Bringing lessons from cybersecurity to the fight against disinformation
Mary Ellen Zurko pioneered user-centered security in the 1990s. Now she’s using those insights to help the nation thwart influence operations.
Mary Ellen Zurko pioneered user-centered security in the 1990s. Now she’s using those insights to help the nation thwart influence operations.
Erin Walk, a PhD student in social and engineering systems, studies the impact of social media on the Syrian conflict.
Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.
Graduate student Sarah Cen explores the interplay between humans and artificial intelligence systems, to help build accountability and trust.
In annual Compton Lecture, celebrated journalist Martin Baron outlines how a growing disregard for facts undermines civil society in the U.S.
A new study reveals how MIT’s campus design and architecture influence interaction among researchers.
Study uses social media to measure how much sentiment has been affected by the Covid-19 crisis, worldwide.
The honorees include four MIT graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science, economics, and media arts and sciences.
Online course from the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality seeks to empower students and educators to critically engage with media.
Polish journalist Ada Petriczko, an Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at MIT, discusses ethical and cross-border journalism, freedom of speech, and the rise of autocracy.
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.
Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.
Experiment with Facebook-flagged content shows groups of laypeople reliably rate stories as effectively as fact-checkers do.
The lab’s artists and technology scholars are exploring representation and reality — and shaping the future of storytelling.