Building a healthier internet: Lessons from fighting covid-19 misinformation
Published Date: 1/25/2021
Source: technologyreview.com
Online misinformation and political polarization have hampered the efforts of public health officials to stop the spread of covid-19. Are there better ways to counter the falsehoods and get more reliable information out there? The MIT Media Lab’s HealthPulse project recently tried to answer that question. It ran a trial in Atlanta, a city with…