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Often, multiple Wikipedia editors will disagree on certain changes to articles or policies.

Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved

Study identifies reasons for unsettled editing disagreements and offers predictive tools that could improve deliberation.

November 6, 2018

The 2018 Election Insights series includes: Research-based commentaries by MIT experts on key issues for the country; a "Music for the Midterms" playlist; and an annotated election booklist.

Analyzing the 2018 election: Insights from MIT scholars

SHASS faculty members offer research-based perspectives with commentaries, plus a Music for the Midterms playlist, and an election book list.

October 30, 2018

According to a system developed at MIT, the most reliable way to detect fake news and biased reporting is to look at the common linguistic features across the source’s stories, including sentiment, complexity, and structure.

Detecting fake news at its source

Machine learning system aims to determine if an information outlet is accurate or biased.

October 4, 2018

General Michael Hayden took questions from the audience and from Joel Brenner (right), who was a former senior counsel at the NSA and head of US counterintelligence under the director of National Intelligence. Brenner is a research affiliate of the MIT Center for International Studies and CSAIL’s Internet Policy Research Initiative.

An assault on American intelligence

In MIT visit, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden describes current difficulties faced by society and U.S. intelligence services.

October 3, 2018

3 Questions: Sasha Costanza-Chock on new “#MoreThanCode” report

Study of 188 practitioners distills key recommendations about using technology to advance social justice and the public interest.

August 23, 2018

MIT launches new homepage and daily email

July 25, 2018

Carlos Gomez Uribe ’02, MEng ’03, PhD ’08, who is an internet tech product and algorithms leader at Facebook, presents during the industry session at the 2018 MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference.

Celebrating 21st century statistics

MIT Statistics and Data Science Conference highlights new approaches and varied applications.

May 8, 2018

MIT grad student Jonny Sun jokes on Late Night with Seth Meyers about his alien persona, Jomny Sun, and the unique challenges of working on a PhD while creating a graphic novel.

Featured video: On alien typos and self-care, in conversation with Seth Meyers

Grad student Jonny Sun jokes on late-night TV about his alien persona and the unique challenges of working on a PhD while creating a graphic novel.

May 3, 2018

CSAIL PhD student Amy Zhang led the development of the new Squadbox tool.

Using friends to fight online harassment

CSAIL’s “Squadbox” uses “friendsourcing” to better support targets of cyberbullying.

April 5, 2018

In the NICS command and control tent at the base of operations, Zeljko Sinkovic, who is working with the Laboratory to develop the Southeast Europe version of NICS, inputs information into the system. On the map, a car icon has been placed where responders have confirmed it has crashed, and the red dots represent the locations of responders.

Southeastern European nations are latest to adopt emergency-response system

Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NATO, is modifying the system to help the region coordinate disaster response across borders.

April 4, 2018

Pictured (left to right): Seated, Soroush Vosoughi, a postdoc at the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines; Sinan Aral, the David Austin Professor of Management at MIT Sloan; and Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab, who also served as Twitter's Chief Media Scientist from 2013 to 2017.

Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories

Research project finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information.

March 8, 2018

Teppei Yamamoto, the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science.

Political Methodology Lab to dig deep into new kinds of data

Founder Teppei Yamamoto designs new tools to comprehend political behavior transformed by digital technology.

February 15, 2018

A study co-authored by MIT professor Daron Acemoglu shows that demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square lowered the stock market valuations of politically connected firms — indicating how much people thought a full democratic revolution was possible.

Street signs

Study shows how seriously investors took the possibility of a democratic revolution during Egypt’s Arab Spring.

December 19, 2017

Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and founder of Leanin.org.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to speak at MIT’s 2018 Commencement

Executive, author, and feminist will address the Class of 2018 on June 8.

December 7, 2017

Shelley is an artificial intelligence horror story writer that collaborates with humans to create tales of terror.

Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?

With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.

October 27, 2017

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