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Coronavirus and the spread of disinformation

Dean Chakravorti in Bloomberg: “As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Fake News”

February 6, 2020March 19, 2020 Joseph Nallen Bhaskar Chakravorti, Bloomberg, China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Disinformation, fake news, pandemic, social media, Tik Tok, Viral Outbreak

The CDC has identified coronavirus as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness that was first detected in Wuhan,

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VIDEO: Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti Discusses “Social Media and the Threat to Democracy”

January 29, 2019January 6, 2020 IBGC Bhaskar Chakravorti, Carolyn Gideon, democracy, Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World, Edward Schumacher-Matos, fake news, IBGC, social media, Susan Landau

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Bhaskar Chakravorti in Forbes – “Can Democracy Be Saved From Datacracy?”

December 21, 2018January 6, 2020 IBGC 0 Comment Bhaskar Chakravorti, big data, data, Data Politics, data privacy, Datacracy, Facebook, fake news, Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg, op-ed

The Big Question For 2019: Can Democracy Be Saved From Datacracy? While democracy has taken some body blows of late,

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Bhaskar Chakravorti in The Chicago Tribune – “How Facebook could really fix itself”

February 2, 2018January 23, 2019 IBGC 0 Comment Bhaskar Chakravorti, Chicago Tribune, digital trust, Facebook, fake news, The Conversation, The Digital Planet, Trust

How Facebook could really fix itself [Facebook] founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to win back users’ trust.

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Each US state is taking its own approach to lifting #lockdown orders, allowing businesses to open & loosening #socialdistancing regulations, due in no small part to a lack of direction from the federal government.

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"In addition to contract tracing, the digital experience needs fixing. Even as companies slowly return to business as usual, we’ll continue to see record numbers of people working remotely for the foreseeable future."

- Bhaskar Chakravorti in @thehill

https://sites.tufts.edu/ibgc/to-restore-the-economy-we-must-fix-americas-technology-gaps-bhaskar-chakravorti-in-the-hill/

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3 Jul

#COVID19 has laid bare longstanding, systemic issues of inequality in the US.

The team at @planetdgtl researched how the pandemic disproportionately harms BIPOC across the country.

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