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It's SYLLABUS season! Are you teaching a course this year related to the creator economy, platforms & digital culture? Upgrade your reading list with a little help from our RESOURCES! 📜✍️🧑‍🏫 Shout out if helpful! We can't wait to watch this page grow 😈 ccsn.framer.website/Resources

CDC has revised a covid color scheme yet again. Compare the darker color used for "very high" last week versus the color this week

Also this is the most affirming moment of my decade of research on these issues. Please pay attention. It’s coming for you next.

Unacceptable, President Donald J. Trump. This is an outrageous statement. We cannot simply accept IDF’s version that this was an “accident.” We do not know that, it’s why we need independent investigation. What accountability will there be when we keep supplying the weapons against our own laws?

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This is a paradoxical scenario in which TikTok frames itself as a partner to solve problems in which it profits and poses an active obstacle to understanding. Nason Maani Nora Kenworthy May van Schalkwyk

The phrase “most people” was mainstreamed to remove the burden of public health from the govt and place it on the Individual during COVID by INVITING you to imagine yourself as part of a superior class of human- the class that matters. dehumanization of the vulnerable continues

The prize to Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) reminded me of a 2016 piece I wrote for Africa Is a Country calling out AJR’s sloppy theoretical reasoning behind their empirical work on institutions. My Africa Is a Country piece was a review of Morten Jerven’s Africa: Why Economists

The world is witnessing a proliferation of crowdfunding platforms in addition to existing ones such as GoFundMe. If your are interested in charitable crowdfunding and digital platforms/technologies in the context of healthcare, check out this new brilliant book by Nora Kenworthy

The internet has been progressively diluted with AI-generated slop. Are medical records headed for the same fate? 🧵 I just published a perspective in NEJM with Adam Rodman and Arjun Manrai on why rushing AI into medical documentation could be a mistake.

Check out the latest episode of the #globalhealth #politics #Podcast featuring a conversation with Tim Schwab on his important new book, The Bill Gates Problem. kim yi dionne (@dadakim.bsky.social) Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen Adia Benton Gowri Vijayakumar Prerna Singh Nora Kenworthy Emily Mendenhall Salmaan Keshavjee @jonshaffer

We Need Solidarity Now More Than Ever Current Affairs currentaffairs.org/news/2024/05/w…

I'm here at #AAA2024 and we're not taking any crap!! Seek me out if you need to report or discuss sexual harassment (reg desk has my #) Let's have a safe and inclusive meeting! #Anthro

Thank you Marco Zenone and Nora Kenworthy for raising this problematic partnership in The Lancet. It is critical to understand the strategic goals these serve, and the core business models they protect #CDoH

Should WHO partner with TikTok to combat misinformation? thelancet.com/journals/lance… "TikTok is designed to sustain user engagement. All engagement, including exposure to misinformation, is profitable for social media platforms..." by (my 🔥 colleague) Marco Zenone & Nora Kenworthy

"This paradoxical relationship highlights the need for more careful, nuanced, and transparent approaches to engagement." In a new letter, Marco Zenone & Nora Kenworthy explore the question "Should WHO partner with TikTok to combat misinformation?" hubs.li/Q02Zc1720

Our new study: Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/google… "The Google tools used by alternative cancer clinics exploit users’ searches for information and give prominence to websites promoting treatment

When anyone searches for information on cancer treatment options - you shouldn't see ads for scientifically unsupported treatment, or ads targeting people who have exhausted their treatment options. Our new study (unfortunately) finds this is occurring misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/google…