Mitigating Misinformation
In the words of the World Health Organization’s director-general, the world is currently fighting not only a pandemic, but also an “infodemic.” Approximately 46,000 tweets per day were linked to inaccurate information in March 2020 alone. With anger and anxiety
We have the tools for privacy. Why don’t we use them?
Your data isn’t private, even if it’s anonymous. In 2006, AOL publicly released 20 million anonymized search logs. That same year, Netflix released 100 million anonymized movie ratings of its users. In both cases, researchers were able to re-identify the
Not Alone: The Emergence of Digital Altruism During COVID-19
As COVID-19 forces us to restructure nearly every aspect of our daily lives, many of us have found ourselves searching for meaningful ways to spend our time. As Harvard College first-year and HTR editor Nikhil Dharmaraj put it, “I was