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In this presentation, hosted by the MIT Latin America Office, Professor David Rand described his recent research on misinformation. The research examined who falls for online misinformation about COVID-19, and what interventions for reducing the spread of such misinformation online work best. Rand, Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and […]

  IDE Digital Fellow Maria Ressa has won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize “for [her] efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” A journalist in Asia for 35 years, Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler, the top digital only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom […]

Sinan Aral, Director of the MIT Initiative on Digital Economy, joined Yahoo!Finance on October 6, to discuss how Facebook and social media networks should be regulated. In the face of a former employee, now whistleblower’s assertions about the giant social media company, Aral called for transparency and access to Facebook algorithms and data to determine […]

MIT IDE Visiting Scholar and Digital Fellow, Geoffrey Parker, recently took a deep dive into the ever-changing landscape of platforms and antitrust regulation at a forum hosted by The Weizenbaum-Institut. Watch the full video here

Platforms Mean Business That’s the major takeaway from the MIT IDE Platform Strategy Summit. It was a year of business reinvention when firms had to use every tool in the toolbox to stay competitive, profitable, and forward-thinking. “Firms that implemented an end-to-end digital infrastructure were much more nimble and able to deal with disruptive supply and demand. […]