Adam Berinsky: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It

Thursday, September 26, 2024 4:30 pm to 6 pm

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Kresge Auditorium; Visual Arts Center, 239 Maine Street, Brunswick, ME 04011, United States, Kresge Auditorium; Visual Arts Center View map
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Berinsky received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1992 and his PhD. from the University of Michigan in 2000. For the last 15 years, Berinsky has been studying political rumors and misinformation. Berinsky has won several scholarly awards and is the recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. He is also the founding director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab.

In 2016, Berinsky was appointed a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow to study how political rumors spread and how they can be effectively debunked.

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