It’s a phenomenon that could “very easily be interpreted through a kind of voter suppression lens, especially given the scrutiny of big tech,” said John Whibey, the director of the AI-Media Strategies Lab at Northeastern University.

Many people don’t feel directly threatened and are drawn in by the thrill of amateur sleuthing, says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.

“There’s a pretty good likelihood that the decisions coming out of this meeting will further restrict vaccinations or at a minimum, limit or add confusion to the scope of vaccination coverage at a time when we really need to be doing everything possible to make them as widely available as possible,” Neil Maniar, a public […]

Research by Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University and others shows that the more precise language we have for our feelings, the better we are at understanding and coping with difficult emotions. More vocabulary can lead to more EQ.

“There’s some evidence to certainly suggest that some of the members have based their opinions on questionable scientific information or have misinterpreted the results of scientific studies,” Neil Maniar, a public health professor at Northeastern University, told CNBC.

Costas Panagopoulos, political scientist at Northeastern University, told Newsweek the poll is not particularly surprising.

“I do think we’re in a moment here,” said Laura Edelson, a Northeastern University professor and expert on social media algorithms. “Our country is being digitally mediated. Where we interact with other people, how we interact with broader society, that is more and more happening over feed algorithms. This is the most recent in a […]

Those would necessarily depend upon STEM educational capabilities in Maine and the employment of graduates from such programs, involving the Maine Space Grant Consortium, Maine universities and the developing Roux Institute at Northeastern University.

“I do think we’re in a moment here,” said Laura Edelson, a Northeastern University professor and expert on social media algorithms. “Our country is being digitally mediated. Where we interact with other people, how we interact with broader society, that is more and more happening over feed algorithms. This is the most recent in a […]

“I do think we’re in a moment here,” said Laura Edelson, a Northeastern University professor and expert on social media algorithms. “Our country is being digitally mediated. Where we interact with other people, how we interact with broader society, that is more and more happening over feed algorithms. This is the most recent in a […]

Op-ed by Jill Abramson, who teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

Laura Edelson, assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, said that at the end of the day, while people love to debate platforms’ policies and what the policies should be, what matters is people’s “experiences of sharing information and the information are able to get and they’re able to see.”