Listen to ProPublica's Ryan McCarthy discuss election misinformation with Data & Society Research Analyst Cristina Lopez. G. Read more

Angèle Christin and Joseph Torres analyze racial divisions in media-making and its interplay with data-centric technologies. Read more

In this talk co-presented by Data & Society and Brooklyn Public Library, historian Jill Lepore discusses her new book "If Then" in conversation with danah boyd, founder and president of Data & Society. Read more

Joe Mulhall, senior researcher at European anti-extremism NGO HOPE not hate, explores how the international far right is leveraging the current climate crisis. Mulhall focuses specifically on networked disinformation and... Read more

Technologist and digital media scholar An Xiao Mina provides a global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline. Based on her new book, Memes to Movements: How the... Read more

Cambridge Analytica and their parent company SCL Group hit the headlines when, after their work on the Trump campaign, reporting exposed how misuse of Facebook data linked them to ‘Brexit’, unethical conduct in international el... Read more

"Fake news” isn’t exactly new: Tabloids have long hawked alien baby photos and Elvis sightings. Many have thus argued that fake news—propaganda, misinformation, and conspiracy theories—have always existed, and therefore require... Read more

Alice Marwick presents the major findings from her recently published report, Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online. Her talk describes how disinformation campaigns occur following major news events and explains how the ... Read more

Sorbonne University, New York University’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and Data & Society Research Institute present “Post-Truth and New Realities: Algorithms, Alternative Facts, and Digital Ethics," a t... Read more

Jennifer Pan presents How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument.      The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,0... Read more