Joe Walther, director of the Center for Information Technology and Society, discusses its recent experiment on how amassing ?’s impacts belief in fake news online, and where research on the power of social media approval is headed.
Maria Ressa, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, tells the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts and how social media is killing our freedoms.
“We are going to lose Gorilla and Brown Bear, Brown Bear,” says Hillary Young, a community ecologist and professor at UC Santa Barbara who studies our biodiversity crisis and is a mother of three. “But we’re also losing Frog and Toad and the Very Hungry Caterpillar, because our loss of animal life is so deep and pervasive.”
“This year feels like a breakthrough. After more than thirty years of effort, the U.S. finally passed comprehensive climate legislation,” Leah Stokes, a political science professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told Insider via email. “All told, there are hundreds of billions of dollars available for climate progress.”
