Research & Ideas

Misinformation on COVID-19 continues to polarize nation, UC Berkeley experts find

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The panel included various campus professors and a former campus research fellow. Panel members Deidre Mulligan and Hany Farid noted the persisting problem of social media platforms being unlikely to rectify their mass output of misinformation. (Photo by Kalechnizar under CC SA 4.0.)

In response to the increasing spread of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Berkeley hosted a virtual panel of experts who spoke about how misinformation impacts people’s responses to the pandemic, as well as potential ways to combat this misinformation.
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Tech & Ideas

Five Questions: Marti Hearst, ‘Big Data’ pioneer

With a massive amount of data online, computer programmers have recently taken to looking for ways to manage it all. Marti Hearst, a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, has been at the forefront of research on working with “Big Data” to make it searchable and accessible. Her
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