Who is susceptible to misinformation? We looked at >60,000 people from 24 countries who took our MIST test. Key results: Gen Z are more susceptible & those on the extreme right (but they don't know it).
Led by the brill @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social & Fritz GΓΆtz
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Barry Blittβs cover for this weekβs issue, βThe First Hundred Days.β #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
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Dear Yale President McInnis and trustees. Conservative and liberal faculty, your alumni and students, the New Haven community have asked you to speak up for higher education. With Harvard, Princeton already out front, wonβt you at least follow?
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!!!
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Yep
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Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say heβs breaking science.
NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say theyβre reviewing the agency.
As a candidate last year, Trump promised βto unleash the power of American innovationβ to super-charge U.S. scientific research.β©
Heβs instead unleashed cuts and chaos, researchers and scientists warn.
Our look at the abrupt changes β and the consequences. With @dtkeating.bsky.social
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This graphic via @friendsofusaid.bsky.social
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside downβthe traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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It is our honor to serve you. America, you broke throughβ the media is finally picking up on whatβs happening. We love you!! 𦬠π πΊπΈ
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Heartbreaking
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