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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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John Zhang of the Wharton School said that for businesses, digital receipts are “a cheap way to get your email address and to build their database to track your shopping habits. As a result, firms can do all kinds of targeted promotions on the cheap, and you will receive all kinds of junk emails.”
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PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp commented on new antitrust lawsuits filed against Facebook by the FTC and 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam. “The loudest cries against the big platforms have come from Democrats historically, so the fact that these lawsuits are starting out in a Republican administration I think bodes poorly for them because they’re not going to get a lot of political relief from Congress,” he said.
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Daniel Taylor of the Wharton School said it’s rare for corporate executives to cash out their stocks prior to releasing a highly anticipated product, as the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna did last month. “They’re selling a vaccine that people are already skeptical of,” Taylor said. “There is a point when the actions of the executives will affect what people think of the vaccines themselves.”
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Perelman School of Medicine researchers, led by Louiza Kalokairinou, studied the pros and cons of at-home COVID-19 testing and found an increased risk of consumers misinterpreting test results.
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Dean John L. Jackson Jr. of the Annenberg School for Communication wrote about how social categories like race are used as “shortcuts” for understanding how people vote and why. “Our assumptions about the link between race and electoral politics underpin broader connections we need to examine between culture and power, between identity and action,” he wrote.
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Megan Ryerson of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design advocated for the use of alternative fuels, like hydrogen, in the airline industry. “Without [alternatives], we either have to stop flying or make drastic cuts in other sectors,” she said.
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Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences said of the upcoming election, “If Trump appeals to prejudice, he risks losing at least as many voters as he stands to gain.”
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PIK Professor John Jackson Jr. authored an op-ed about how clichés in filmmaking oversimplify complex issues like racism. “A truly diverse and inclusive Hollywood will need the courage to forsake many of the classic formulas that it believes audiences require for the grandest stories it tries to tell,” he wrote.
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Dennis P. Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice spoke about the seemingly low rate of COVID-19 infections among homeless people in Los Angeles. “It’s possible being outside is protective relative to inside,” he said. Still, without more comprehensive antibody testing, “I’m not so sure we can say there hasn’t been a huge hit.”
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Judd B. Kessler and Corinne Low of the Wharton School wrote about their research on what prevents large companies from progressing on racial diversity. “Bias in résumé screening is just one part of the problem. Eliminating bias in employment will require rethinking every aspect of the hiring and promotion process,” they wrote.