It might not feel like it, but the election is working
The election process is working. A long-building “chaos” narrative being pushed by President Donald Trump suggests that the election is ...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Why counting votes in Pennsylvania is taking so long
So Election Day is over, but the election continues. The world’s attention has turned to a set of swing states still counting important ma...
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Monday, November 2, 2020
How social media sites plan to handle premature election declarations
The election results will start to come in as early as 7pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, when seven states begin closing the polls. The next few ...
Read dispatchHow to talk to kids and teens about misinformation
Tomorrow is Election Day in the US, which means we’ve reached peak political saturation: Americans are being hit with constant news alerts, ...
Read dispatchHow Amazon’s offsets could exaggerate its progress toward “net zero” emissions
In April, Amazon announced it would contribute $10 million to a pair of projects designed to pay forest owners across the Appalachian Mount...
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Three places where data is on the ballot this November
The 2020 election may be among the most consequential in modern memory, but it’s not just candidates that are on the ballot. Voters in 34 st...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Resources for being antiracist
The 2020 “Support Black Lives at MIT” petition by the Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA) and Black Students’ Union (BSU): http://bgs...
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Sunday, October 11, 2020
Election result delays mean “the system is working” says cybersecurity chief
With an unprecedented number of Americans voting by mail this year, it may take longer than normal for results to come in this Election Day—...
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Monday, October 5, 2020
Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social media
Day by day, the evidence is mounting that Facebook is bad for society. Last week Channel 4 News in London tracked down Black Americans in W...
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Monday, September 28, 2020
The US Army wants to modify SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for unjammable navigation
SpaceX has already launched more than 700 Starlink satellites, with thousands more due to come online in the years ahead. Their prime missi...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
California looks to ban gas guzzlers – but legal hurdles abound
California Governor Gavin Newsom made a bold attempt today to ban sales of new gas-guzzling cars and trucks, marking a critical step in the ...
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Sunday, September 6, 2020
Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem
When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would stop accepting political advertising in the week before the US presidential election, h...
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Monday, August 31, 2020
Explainer: What do political databases know about you?
American citizens are inundated with political messages—on social networks, in their news feeds, through email, text messages, and phone cal...
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Sunday, August 30, 2020
Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater
Rock climb without fear. Play a symphony in your head. Superhuman vision to see radar. Discover the nature of consciousness. Cure blindness,...
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