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
BREAKING: Police are attempting to clear the #MIT#encampment. Protestors were given half an hour notice to clear out or be suspended. MIT Coalition Against Apartheid is streaming live on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mit_caa/
#Boston-area Jews and allies are here at the #MIT encampment with MIT Jews for Ceasefire, uplifting students’ demands, singing for Palestinian liberation, and calling for an enduring ceasefire.
We need to bring more attention to the university-specific #bds demands that the students of the #studentspring are making: companies invested, dollar amounts, research relationships, etc. So far, the divestment aspect seems to be lost, when it's actually the most important part.
WMBR News presents a special report on the encampment set up by the MIT Coalition for Palestine last Sunday near Kresge Auditorium on MIT's campus. We speak with members of the MIT community including pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students about the protest and its goals, as well as antisemitism and free speech at MIT.
As the #MIT Scientists Against Genocide Encampment enters its third night, MIT Jews for Ceasefire are holding a #Passover Seder. We are so proud to support these Jewish students and allies, embodying their values in the face of extreme censorship.
MIT Swap today. Not as many vendors as usual, but still still a decent amount of retro computers, radios, and free piles (my weakness!) here’s a quick tour of some of the things I saw #cambridgema#mit#swap#hamradio
(1/2) Introduction To CS And Programming Using Python 🐍 - New MIT Course 🚀👇🏼
MIT released an introductory course for computer science by Dr. Ana Bell. This full semester course (26 lectures) focuses on the foundations of programming using Python. This is a beginner level and does not require previous programming experience.
We now understand why permissive #licensing is bad for #FOSS.
#Redis taught us why #GPL is important and #MIT, #Apache, #BSD etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.
#Israel's use of #Lavender for targeting in #Gaza, which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable #genocide.
I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.