“It’s one thing to see a random link that is blatantly false being shared on a News Feed by someone you barely know at all. But it’s another thing entirely when someone you know sends you a blatantly false story or a deep fake video,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells CNN News. “You might actually trust it even more.”
Check out Professor Brook Baker’s latest blog for Health Gap.
What happens when the people we entrust with our lives and well-being compromise their credibility with a single photo? Professor Margaret Burnham, director of NUSL's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ), shares her take on the recent blackface controversies.
“We need to understand that doing nothing isn’t working either, that this is a very complicated but very distorted marketplace and that the lack of intervention by the government is not working,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Huntington News. “I think it will be in the interest of the drug companies, actually, not only the patients, to negotiate in good faith and come up with something that can work for everybody.”
In his latest contribution to the Health GAP blog, Professor Brook Baker provides an analysis of the Global Fund’s target for its upcoming replenishment cycle.
In an interview with MIT Sloan, Professor Shalanda Baker ’05, the new (and first-ever) deputy director of energy justice at the US Department of Energy, talks about how she develops and works with big ideas.
In the latest issue of Northeastern’s Experience Magazine, Dean James Hackney cites Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic Worldby Fareed Zakaria as a book that has shaped his vision of the future — and given him hope.
More state legislatures are mobilizing in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on an abortion ban in Mississippi, which directly threatens the rights spelled out in Roe v. Wade. Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul weigh in on the latest effort in Vermont.
“COVID-19 has had a much bigger footprint than we have estimated so far,” says Professor Brook Baker ‘76.
“This is not something progressive Democrats together with progressive allies are going to significantly achieve,” Professor Emeritus Peter Enrich, chair of the Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts, tells CommonWealth. “If we’re going to make a difference here, it’s going to require a far broader coalition that reaches out across the political spectrum, to groups engaged with various issues.”