Matthew B. Ross, a professor at Northeastern University who often serves as an expert witness in cases in which the department reaches consent decrees to reform local police departments, said he had heard from lawyers in the division he had worked with that they would be leaving.

“Content takedowns on Facebook just don’t matter all that much, because of how long they take to happen,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and the lead author of the paper in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety.

Gregory D. Abowd, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.

“A dirty sponge can actually contain more bacteria than a toilet seat,” said Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert and professor at Northeastern University. “Each use spreads germs instead of removing them, turning your efforts to clean into an unintentional act of contamination.”

The FTC recently launched an investigation into the prevalence and use of surveillance pricing, also known as personal pricing. A team at Boston’s Northeastern University is also investigating its use and impacts on consumers.

Perhaps more ominously, in a study involving structured interviews with a diverse group of around 300 participants, two researchers at Northeastern University found “trust trended higher for chatbots than Search Engine results, regardless of source credibility” and “satisfaction was highest” with a standalone chatbot, rather than a chatbot plus traditional search.

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek it can be tough for the minority party to put up a strong fight in Congress because of some structural barriers that prevent Democrats from doing more to stand up to the administration and the GOP agenda.