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Claire Wardle, PhD, tapped to co-lead Master Class in “Disarming Disinformation”
Claire Wardle, PhD, will serve as one of four instructors for “Disarming Disinformation,” a Master Class offered by the International Center for Journalists in partnership with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and the Scripps Howard Foundation....
IFL hosts “Data, Power & Pedagogy”
Data, Power & Pedagogy, a three-day workshop held for educators and researchers on September 27-29, made space to build teaching resources centered on data, surveillance, and targeted advertising. Most people do not understand how much of their data is collected...
IFL hosts panel on social media and data privacy
In 2018, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked our understanding of online privacy and data-driven politics. In the four years since the news broke, major privacy concerns have everywhere from COVID contact tracing to online educational platforms. Yet there...
IFL hosts “Defining Transparency”
The Information Futures Lab convened policymakers, journalists, and academic researchers to propose a comprehensive standard for defining social media transparency, in collaboration with partners at the Algorithmic Transparency Institute. There is widespread and...
IFL hosts panel on misinformation and regulation
Can government regulation mitigate the harmful effects of misinformation? New regulatory roadmaps - the EU Commission’s Digital Services Act, and the Online Safety Bill in the UK - are important first steps, but only broader solutions will effectively curb...
IFL report calls for structural public health changes to increase vaccine demand and stop future disease outbreaks
A new report, Infrastructures of Trust: The Case for Investing in Vaccine Demand, from researchers at the Information Futures Lab at Brown University's School of Public Health calls for investment in community leadership; provides key strategies for public health...
IFL Submits Comment to Meta’s Oversight Board
In July 2022 Meta asked its Oversight Board to consider its policy on COVID-19 misinformation. In turn, the Oversight Board solicited public comments around six key aspects of its pending recommendation. To solicit recommendations about the continuation of Meta’s...
IFL’s Claire Wardle joins WHO Strategic & Technical Advisory Group
Claire Wardle, co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab, and Professor of the Practice at the Brown School of Public Health has been appointed as a member of the World Health Organization’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards...
Brown School of Public Health launches new Lab to combat misinformation, data deficits, outdated communication practices — and to catalyze innovation
“It is time to build a new future for our information spaces.” SPH Information Futures Lab will drive collaborative research, make emerging evidence accessible, and empower practitioners to design, pilot and evaluate creative solutions PROVIDENCE, RI – Responding to...
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