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After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.

While suspending Trump may have reduced misinformation by itself, the study’s findings hold up even if you remove his account from the equation, said co-author David Lazer, professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University.
Fortune

20 years ago Rolling Stone promised subscribers a ‘lifetime’ print magazine for just $99—now they’re canceling and readers are ‘enraged’

The magazine’s ownership changed in 2017, and without a clause that requires future owners to abide by past terms the lifetime subscribers bought into, “the new owner is probably not bound by the lifetime subscription deal, hence, no breach,” Alexandra Roberts, a professor of media and law at Northeastern University School of Law, told Slate. 
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Time For Business Leaders To Step Up Their Own AI Training

Immerse they must, to succeed in helping their organizations realize the possibilities AI offers, while navigating through the pitfalls. That’s the word from David De Cremer, business school dean at Northeastern University, who urges business and technology leaders to overcome any nervousness and step up and learn the ways and means of AI.
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What we do — and don’t — know about how misinformation spreads online

The role of social-media platforms in abetting the spread of misinformation is shown in a research article by David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues. 
Health

More Than 150 People Sickened in Salmonella Outbreak Possibly Linked to Cucumbers

In this specific instance, the FDA didn’t share how the cucumbers became contaminated with Salmonella. But the bacteria can get into vegetables through irrigation water, along with many other points in the food growing and processing chain, Darin Detwiler, PhD, author and associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University, told Health.   
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How internet addiction may affect your teen’s brain, according to a new study

The functional connectivity patterns in participants’ brains are, in fact, in line with those observed in people with substance addictions, said Dr. Caglar Yildirim, an associate teaching professor of computer science at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. 
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Donald Trump Facing ‘Five-Alarm Fire’ Over Election—GOP Strategist

Support for Trump “would need to drop sharply in today’s primaries to draw any solid conclusions about post-conviction defection,” Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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What your sibling birth order does — and doesn’t — explain

New parents are often highly motivated to anticipate and meet every whim of their firstborn, explains Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology and the principal investigator of the Sibling Research Group at Northeastern University. 
Slate

When a Lifetime Subscription Isn’t for Life

There are good questions about whether what Rolling Stone is doing constitutes a breach of contract with their subscribers—and if they even care. Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University School of Law, said there’s no reason to think this wasn’t a valid contract when it was struck. 
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Employers look to rip the ‘paper ceiling’ for non-graduates

Amanda Welsh, professor of the practice at Northeastern University — a rare example of a US college offering experiential learning through projects and a year working for an employer — argues: “The degree is still very much a proxy for high-order thinking and problem-solving. I don’t know if there’s an alternative process to provide that […]
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Top Baby Names in Florida

Newsweek previously spoke to linguist Adam Cooper, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, to find out why some names like Liam aren’t going out of fashion despite being around 200 years old.
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Northeastern University and Marymount Manhattan College to merge, giving Boston school foothold in NYC

Northeastern University is expanding to the Big Apple where it will open its fourteenth campus, to be called “Northeastern University — New York City,” officials announced Wednesday.