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David Lazer

The presidential election is one year out. Why predictions are more reliable than polls when picking a winner
Experts on disinformation talk Israel-Hamas: It’s a ‘toxic stew of an information environment’
Why Western democracy faces a nightmare made online
Northeastern receives $17.5 million from CDC to launch infectious disease prediction center
The Global South’s missing voice in AI
‘It’s not simple’: Researchers tweaked Facebook’s algorithms to see if they could fix America’s political polarization. They failed
Democrats and Republicans consume very different news content on Facebook, researcher says
New research pushes back against charge that Google search engine creates partisan ‘filter bubble’
Northeastern professor and the COVID States Project say CDC overestimating number of vaccinated Americans
Here's why the science is clear that masks work
Nearly a quarter of Americans met criteria for 'moderate depression' during COVID-19 pandemic years, Northeastern research shows
People with long COVID-19 are less likely to be employed full time, Northeastern study shows
FDA's own reputation could be restraining its misinfo fight
Researchers scramble as Twitter plans to end free data access
Twitter's API crackdown will hit more than just bots
Twitter is shedding users, most of them Democrats, a new survey shows
Half of U.S. adults say they had COVID-19, but only a fraction were officially diagnosed, new research shows
American public largely supported the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s estate, new survey finds
Unprecedented data collection project, ‘a huge missing piece of the study of the internet,’ now underway
Study finds life-saving COVID-19 treatments didn’t make it to US patients recently infected
Support for abortion went up after Roe v. Wade was overturned, report says
Parents who forego COVID-19 vaccine for their children are less likely to seek information on it, study shows
Why the rise of rapid tests makes COVID-19 case counts hard to trust
The official count of COVID-19 shots in older adults is distorted. What’s going on?