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-7 posts tagged "misinformation"
BridgeND | Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Social media has given a platform for individuals to share their voices faster and to a broader audience than ever before. At our nation’s founding, it would have been unimaginable to predict that anyone would be able to speak at any time from anywhere. This phenomenon has lent itself to the creation of a new
Elizabeth Prater | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
I made a pact with myself this year to read actively and more widely about the news. This may be surprising for someone who has both written and worked for The Observer since my freshman year at Notre Dame. However, I found myself barely being able to keep up with my seminar readings, rooted in
Luciana Thomas | Monday, April 19, 2021
The Mendoza College of Business hosted Freedom House research director Sarah Cook for a lecture about disinformation in China Friday. This lecture was part of the Ten Years Hence webinar series that began in 2002 to explore issues and ideas that were likely to affect the world over the next decade. Cook’s lecture, “Disinformation, China,
Megumi Tamura | Thursday, February 11, 2021
“We are the voice brave enough to cry out. […] We are the candle in the dark room. We are the only hope this country has left. […] We need to take this country back.” I want you to take a moment to guess where I got the words written above from. Because this language
Layton Hall | Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Heidi Beidinger-Burnett and Mary Ann McDowell, both of the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global health, are taking on misinformation and misunderstanding of the coronavirus pandemic with their new webinar series called “Consider This! Simplifying the COVID-19 Conversation.” Beidinger-Burnett serves as the director of the Eck Institute for Global Health and president of
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, August 27, 2020
Professor Alford et al. may be right that our community is better off by keeping the campus open. What I object to is how they reach this conclusion: specifically, their appeal to a Cornell research and a CDC survey as evidence that opening the campus is good. Both inferences are unsound, with the first case
JC Sullivan | Tuesday, February 10, 2015
“A better politics is one where we debate without demonizing each other; where we talk issues and values and principles and facts, rather than ‘gotcha’ moments or trivial gaffes or fake controversies.” For most, this quotation from President Obama’s State of the Union prompted identical responses that could not be more different. “Exactly, if only