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Human Cooperation and the Crises of Climate Change, COVID-19, and Misinformation

Jan, 2022

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Research Papers Geographic and Social Spillovers in COVID-19 Closures and Reopenings in the United States

Aug 2021

Sinan Aral | Director

Michael Zhao | PhD Candidate

David Holtz | Research Affiliate

Research Papers Platform Leadership: Staffing and Training the Inverted Firm

Jul 2021

Geoff Parker | Visiting Scholar

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Peter Evans

Dylan Finkhousen

Research Papers How Users Drive Value in Two-sided Markets: Platform Designs That Matter

Jun 2021

Marshall Van Alstyne | Visiting Scholar

Zhou Zhou

Lingling Zhang

Research Papers Stuck Online: When Online Engagement Gets In the Way of Offline Sales

Jun 2021

Sagit Bar-Gill | Research Affiliate

Shachar Reichman

Research Papers The Psychology of Fake News

May 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Gordon Pennycook

Research Papers Our Digital Future: From the Internet to the Interledger

May 2021

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland | Data-Driven Societies Research Group Lead

Research Papers Perverse Downstream Consequences of News Debunking: A Twiter Field Experiment

May 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Dean Eckles | Social Networks & Digital Experimentation Research Group Lead

Mohsen Mosleh

Cameron Martel

Research Papers Developing an Accuracy-prompt Toolkit to Reduce COVID-19 Misinformation Online

May 2021

David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead

Ziv Epstein, MIT Media Lab

Adam J. Berinsky, MIT Sloan

Rocky Cole

Andrew Gully

Gordon Pennycook

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