More than 225,000 tweets with the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic led to an "infodemic" of misinformation and disinformation on Twitter during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study by UT Southwestern researchers ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been depressing, demoralizing, and stressful for people around the world. But is there any way to measure exactly how bad it has made everyone feel?
Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2022
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A tongue-in-cheek editorial about the death of the Great Barrier Reef undermined efforts to build action on climate change and amplified conflict, a new study in Media International Australia has found.
Environment
Jan 24, 2022
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Scientists are using two bird's-eye views—remote sensing from satellites and the voices of Twitter—to synthesize the environmental impacts of sprawling infrastructure projects and how the people who live amongst them ...
Environment
Aug 6, 2021
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A lot of entirely unwarranted anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. and elsewhere has emerged on social media since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had its original source in Wuhan, China, but is a global problem ...
Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2021
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A new study finds that adults in five Southern cities hold similar views regarding school assignments and the importance of diversity in K-12 schools—despite those cities having very different policies in place to support ...
Education
Jul 27, 2021
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Large protest events can be divisive, spurring an outpouring of both support and opposition. But new Penn State research found that the 2017 Women's March, which championed goals in support of women and human rights, was ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2020
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What's your energy story?
Environment
Apr 21, 2020
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More than a decade's worth of research has revealed how politicians manipulate highly emotional incidents like shark bites to influence public sentiment and protect their own interests.
Ecology
Apr 15, 2019
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Facebook said it blocked online manipulation efforts in Britain and Romania from faked accounts in the latest crackdown on "inauthentic" content on the huge social network.
Internet
Mar 7, 2019
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