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FactCheck.org and the fight against misinformation
Eugene Kiely and Kathleen Hall Jamieson.

Eugene Kiely is the director of FactCheck.org, which Kathleen Hall Jamieson co-founded in 2003.

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FactCheck.org and the fight against misinformation

Across two decades, the Annenberg Public Policy Center project expanded by adding scientific fact checking, translating content into Spanish, and addressing viral social media misinformation.
When young people seem to make threats on social media, do they mean it?
A distressed teen with a smartphone.

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When young people seem to make threats on social media, do they mean it?

A new app from SAFELab helps teachers, police, and journalists interpret social media posts by BIPOC youth and understand which threats may be real.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online
Rendering of a brain with signals insinuating AI and data.

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Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online

A new study from the Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that, even across cultures, neural models can reliably predict whether an article is popular on Facebook.

From Annenberg School for Communication