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Activists leverage social media to counter China’s state-controlled narratives

Activist journalists living outside China’s censoring-regime are successfully using social media to “challenge” Beijing’s “authoritarian regime,” a paper by a Northeastern University researcher has found.This post was originally published on this site

California housing officials recommend that state protect renters from extreme heat

Citing the hundreds of lives lost to extreme heat each year, California state housing officials are urging lawmakers to set residential cooling standards long opposed by landlords and builders who fear such a measure would […]

Global social media engagement trends revealed for 2024 election year

An analysis of more than 4 million Facebook posts created by news outlets and political parties in 2024 highlights global social media engagement trends and political polarization during a year which included elections for many […]

Violent crime in South Africa happens mostly in a few hotspots, says criminologist

Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal crime globally. According to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, South Africa’s murder […]

Why Democrats are switching off the news: A psychologist explains

Many Democrats appear to be switching off mainstream news channels and other media, following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.This post was originally published on this site

History shows how a trade war can become a violent conflict

In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump imposing a 10% levy against China and pressing a 30-day pause on proposed tariffs to Canada and Mexico, Martin Danahay is reflecting on the dangerous historical outcomes […]

Who are immigrants to the US, where do they come from and where do they live?

Undocumented immigration is a key issue in American politics, but it can be hard to nail down the basic facts about who these immigrants are, where they live and how their numbers have changed in […]

Trump wants Greenland—but here’s what the people of Greenland want

In 2018, a colleague and I, together with a team of Greenlandic research assistants, conducted one of the most comprehensive surveys to date on public opinion in Greenland. We traveled to 13 randomly selected towns […]

Opinion: USAID shutdown isn’t just a humanitarian issue—it’s a threat to American interests

The website for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the world’s biggest aid donor, has gone dark.This post was originally published on this site

Educated but easily fooled? Who falls for misinformation and why

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development have identified who is most susceptible to online misinformation and why. Their meta-analysis reveals surprising patterns in how demographic and psychological factors—including age, education, political identity, […]