In the 2020 US elections, Joe Biden's win against Donald Trump prompted the Trump campaign to file more than 60 lawsuits challenging the result, mostly focusing on swing states.
We're increasingly aware of how misinformation can influence elections. About 73% of Americans report seeing misleading election news, and about half struggle to discern what is true or false.
Two-thirds of the world's food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties ...
Political violence is hardly new to America. Since the country's inception, gunmen have shaped its political landscape, from the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan, to high-profile assassinations and the bombing of federal buildings. ...
If you've ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to another—then you know the feeling of "going down a rabbit hole." This experience of curiosity-led online ...
On Sept. 20, 2024, a newspaper in Montana reported an issue with ballots provided to overseas voters registered in the state: Kamala Harris was not on the ballot. Election officials were able to quickly remedy the problem, ...
For a business on the receiving end of "review bombs"—the sudden influx of online customer reviews following a political or cultural controversy—an interventionist approach to content moderation might seem like a prudent ...
In a new book, Virginia Commonwealth University professor Christopher Whyte explores why conspiracy theories, extremist rhetoric and acts of antagonism by fringe elements of society are becoming increasingly prevalent.
A new study published today (Oct. 29) details the ways in which the 2020 U.S. election not only incited new hate content in online communities but also how it brought those communities closer together around online hate speech.
In September 2024, authorities in Benin detained the country's former sports minister and a prominent businessman for allegedly plotting a coup against the West African nation's president, Patrice Talon. Had a putsch materialized, ...
