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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
According to Homa Hosseinmardi of the Annenberg School for Communication, ensuring that search engine giants like Google operate with people’s best interest in mind requires knowing how people are using the algorithm, not just how the algorithm works.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that overall scientific literacy has grown during the pandemic, even as more people began to believe conspiracy theories and misinformation.
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The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org debunked the notion that a proposed Washington state law would allow the government to take children away from parents who don’t agree to gender transition surgery.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the CDC’s handling of the monkeypox crisis has been a public health success.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center coordinated a recent effort by the National Academy of Sciences to recommend how to protect the integrity of survey research, taking particular aim at the phrase “representative sample.”
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A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only a quarter of people could name all three branches of government, though that figure rose to 56% by 2021.
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Emily Hund of the Annenberg School for Communication says that society loves the idea of people being themselves.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the Dominion disclosures demonstrate that Fox News has successfully focused on satisfying the existing needs and desires of a niche audience.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the 2020 election conspiracy theory has too many strands sustaining it to be brought down by the destruction of one thread.
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A report co-authored by Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that higher percentages of women aged 18 to 49 doubt the safety and effectiveness of COVID and flu vaccines during pregnancy.