Two new studies published in the journal of Science this week offer a deeper insight into the spread of misinformation on social media, offering evidence that it not only changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers” — predominately older Republican women — were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at.
The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. @TechCrunch has more.
I'm writing an article that deals in part with the career of MIT civil engineering prof John B. "Bud" Wilbur, class of '26. Did you or any of your mentors/elders know him? Please get in touch! #mit#engineering
Wieder ein Bleiakku 🔋 weniger!
Er hat unser Mobiltelefon und unseren Laptop schon mit #Balkonsolar ☀️ aufgeladen, als das Wort noch gar nicht erfunden war.
The #Gaza Solidarity encampament at #Penn got swept this morning at 6:00 am, and a similar takedown was done at #MIT at 4am. The pre-dawn raids led to between 40 and 45 "peaceful" arrests between the two campuses and both encampments have been razed.