Empowering social media users to assess content helps fight misinformation
An experimental platform that puts moderation in the hands of its users shows that people do evaluate posts effectively and share their assessments with others.
An experimental platform that puts moderation in the hands of its users shows that people do evaluate posts effectively and share their assessments with others.
PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
Researchers share progress applying network science to disinformation tracing, Covid-19 modeling, and machine learning.
Lincoln Laboratory connects counter–human trafficking community in pursuit of technology to help investigate cases.
Social media users share charts and graphs — often with the same underlying data — to advocate opposing approaches to the pandemic.
Expert in social data processing proposes adjusting newsfeed algorithms to better mimic real-life interactions.
Twitter experiment shows clear self-selection into social media “echo chambers” due to political preferences.
Eaman Jahani examines how resources are distributed across networks as a social and engineering systems PhD student at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.
Venerable Miao Guang urges mindfulness in a time of pandemic during a virtual meeting hosted by MIT Global Languages.
Survey from the Saxe Lab aims to measure the toll of social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic.
MIT’s AgeLab offers ways to maintain conversations between younger and older adults.
New tools can find patterns in vast online data to track and identify users on illicit forums.
Study of 188 practitioners distills key recommendations about using technology to advance social justice and the public interest.