This sliver of opportunity was narrow but clear, Sam Scarpino, an infectious-disease modeler and flu researcher at Northeastern University, whose team has been closely tracking a timeline of the American outbreak, told me. In hindsight, “realistically, that was probably our window,” he said. “We were just too slow.”

“This move by Meta is definitely part of a larger trend, with fact-checking undergoing some headwinds globally,” John P Wihbey, associate professor of media innovation and technology at Northeastern University, told Al Jazeera.

During an interview with Karen Quigley, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, I realize another factor may be causing me and my friends to interrupt each other more.

That could all silo people into their own communities, so users are more likely to echo — rather than challenge — viewpoints, said Laura Edelson, a former Justice Department official who is an expert on algorithms at Northeastern University. “We will get more extreme rabbit holes,” she warned, “and that is a recipe for more […]

Op-ed by Jennie C. Stephens, a professor of climate justice at Maynooth University in Ireland and professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University in the US.

Sahar Abi-Hassan, an assistant professor in political science at Northeastern University who studies the behavior of the Supreme Court, says the court might side with TikTok for several reasons, including its historical hesitance toward restricting speech. But she finds it more likely that the court upholds the law.

Hydrants are running dry in LA. Northeastern University professor Daniel Aldrich explains how L.A.’s water shortage is fueling the Palisades Fire, creating what he calls a ‘cascading disaster’.

Op-ed written by Jill Abramson, who currently teaches at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism.

Dr. Darin Detwiler, professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “The public should take Class I recalls very seriously and avoid using the affected products.

The hallucinated summaries are also an embarrassment for the iPhone maker, said Michael Bennett, AI adviser at Northeastern University.

Meta’s new move “allows them to cut even further at the amount of money that they spend on trust and safety because they’re just going to do less of it,” said Laura Edelson, assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University.

Net neutrality may now appear well beyond FCC control—but that does not mean this principle is dead, says computer scientist David Choffnes, who directs the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University.