A stark warning about threats to truth, science, and democracy
In annual Compton Lecture, celebrated journalist Martin Baron outlines how a growing disregard for facts undermines civil society in the U.S.
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.
ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law.
Large-scale video campaign allowed physicians and public health messengers to encourage staying home over the 2020 holidays.
Entrepreneurship class MAS.664 launches businesses with a global reach.
Researchers share progress applying network science to disinformation tracing, Covid-19 modeling, and machine learning.