by William Jester | Jun 28, 2023 | Community, News
Political ideology and user choice – not algorithmic curation – are the biggest drivers of engagement with partisan and unreliable news provided by Google Search, according to a study coauthored by Rutgers faculty published in the journal Nature. The study addressed a...
by William Jester | Jun 27, 2023 | Community, News
Black adults – particularly Black women – with higher levels of education and experiences of discrimination and crime are more likely to own a firearm, according to a study by the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers. In a new study appearing in...
by William Jester | Jun 24, 2023 | Community, News
Rutgers has received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a four-year study to explore the legal and ethical barriers to conducting HIV research with youth populations in central, east, west and southern Africa. The goal of researchers...
by William Jester | Jun 23, 2023 | Community, News
Researchers at Rutgers University have found a major flaw in the way that algorithms designed to detect “fake news” evaluate the credibility of online news stories. Most of these algorithms rely on a credibility score for the “source” of the...
by William Jester | Jun 22, 2023 | Community, News
The slightest noise kept Sarah Paul up most nights. She was exhausted trying to care for her 92-year-old mother who was diagnosed with dementia, a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, which Black people get at twice the rate as the overall population. “I hear her cough. I...
