Press Source: The Washington Post

A group of moms on Facebook built an island of good-faith vaccine debate...

... research supports the idea that social media can be a force for pro-vaccine persuasion, under the right circumstances.

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Press Source: Thinkers50

Announcing the Thinkers50 2021 Digital Thinking Award shortlist

The T50 Digital Thinking Award celebrates the thinker who has done the most to transform the digital revolution into useful management insights.

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Press Source: WCVB | Chronicle (Video)

The mounting pressure for social media reform, MIT professor Sinan Aral ...

"...when you [turn off or] change the algorithm...people go back to their desire for diversity and for reaching across the aisle."

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Press Source: Politico

What the White House doesn't get about misinformation

When a user shares something...It seems that he’s mostly trying to impress his followers and entertain them.

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Press Source: Yahoo Finance | Tech Talk (Podcast)

The House's battle to end big tech monopolies

"I think there's a glaring lack of a focus on interoperability legislation, which is a big miss.”

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Press Source: WCVB-TV | Chronicle (Video)

Is social media good or evil?

Anthony [Everett] talks to [Prof. Sinan Aral] the author of “The Hype Machine,” a new book that explores the promise and peril of social media.

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Press Source: Cheddar (Video)

Supreme Court justice suggests new regulation for big tech

Prof. Sinan Aral discusses why regulation of tech platforms is unlikely to go into effect.

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Press Source: Voice of America News (Video)

Twitter turns 15, confronts growing pains of popularity

“The Black Lives Matter movement founders say there would be no Black Lives Matter movement without social media."

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Press Source: GBH | In It Together (Audio)

Vaccine selfies and videos have a positive impact on vaccination rates, ...

News stories about vaccine hesitancy may be doing more harm than good. But there's good news — and it comes in the form of selfies.

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Press Source: Fast Company

How interoperability could end Facebook's death grip on social media

“These tech platforms have solved engineering challenges a hundred times harder than this one."

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