"Meta clearly perceives a great deal of political risk of being targeted. And the way Zuckerberg presented the announcements, and the timing, was obviously intended to play to a Republican audience," Government Prof. Brendan Nyhan says about the removal of fact-checking from Facebook and related platforms.
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John Carey discusses Dartmouth's new policy to exercise general restraint in issuing institutional statements, thereby providing space for diverse viewpoints to be raised and fully considered
[more]"Effective altruists reduce value to anything that can be quantified, but you very often cannot quantify the things we value the most," the visiting scholar says in an article questioning if charity should be optimized. Read the article here.
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Leading scholars provide insight into urgent policy debates. Jeff Friedman of Dartmouth College interviews contributors to the premier peer-reviewed journal of security studies. They offer sophisticated, authoritative analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues, from the role of China in the world and cyber in international security to the long history of ethnic cleansing in Europe. The podcast is produced at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Four professors reflect on a watershed election in a Rockefeller Center panel.
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