APPC postdoc Ozan Kuru is part of a team that has been awarded a research grant by WhatsApp to study the spread of misinformation over the messaging app.
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APPC postdoc Ozan Kuru is part of a team that has been awarded a research grant by WhatsApp to study the spread of misinformation over the messaging app.
Carl Zimmer, columnist for The New York Times and author of 13 books about science, spoke about his new book, "She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity."
Public sentiment on GMOs shifted following the release of a consensus report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a study finds.
Philadelphia-area elementary students had a chance to ask questions of the candidates for Pennsylvania governor at the Rendell Center Youth Gubernatorial Forum.
Two dozen foreign journalists met with FactCheck.org director Eugene Kiely and APPC director Kathleen Hall Jamieson to talk about fighting misinformation on social media.
Postdoctoral fellow Matt Motta was honored with the Elsevier Atlas award for an article on overconfidence due to ignorance and anti-vaccine attitudes.
Reporter Jane Mayer writes that Kathleen Hall Jamieson's book "Cyberwar" concludes that Russia likely delivered Trump’s victory.
The Annenberg Public Policy Center community mourns the passing of Washington journalist Adam Clymer, former political director of the National Annenberg Election Survey.
The Annenberg Public Policy Center congratulates APPC distinguished research fellow Danielle Bassett on being awarded the Erdős-Rényi Prize by the Network Science Society.
Only a subset of teens who engage in excessive levels of impulsive behavior, such as acting without thinking, later struggle with addictions or other problem behaviors, a study has found.