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Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation
Dam Hee Kim, University of Arizona; Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University, and Scott Shackelford, Indiana University The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media companies have experience identifying and countering misinformation. However, the nature of the threat misinformation poses to society continues to shift in form and targets. The big lie about the 2020 presidential election has become
Here’s how government documents are classified to keep sensitive information safe
Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Documents sought by the U.S. Justice Department from former President Donald Trump may contain material related to what The New York Times described as “some of the most highly classified
Trump-endorsed candidates would generally win even without his support – and that’s usually the case with all political endorsements
Ian Anson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Over the past few months, many journalists and pundits have credited the power of Donald Trump’s endorsements with determining the winners of Republican primaries. Trump has made 203 candidate endorsements in the 2022
UN Security Council is powerless to help Ukraine – but it’s working as designed to prevent World War III
Thomas G. Weiss, CUNY Graduate Center A clearly anguished Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 5, 2022, castigated the U.N. Security Council members for their inaction on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine: “Are you ready to close the U.N.? Do
Madeleine Albright saw US as an ‘indispensable nation’ and NATO expansion eastward as essential
Peter Harris, Colorado State University Madeleine Albright may have not coined the phrase “indispensable nation,” but she will always be associated with the concept. By the time she became Secretary of State in 1997, the United States had become a