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Selected media mentions
- Politico How Candace Owens became TPUSA’s worst enemy 2026
- STAT Democrats say America’s role as a scientific leader is slipping, while Republicans remain unworried 2026
- Poynter Trump’s White House is testing the limits of AI-driven political messaging 2025
- PolitiFact How Donald Trump uses artificial intelligence to promote himself, mock others 2025
- STAT Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states 2025
- New York Times Pediatricians try new tactics to win over vaccine skeptics 2025
- New York Times Twitter barred them. What happened when Elon Musk brought them back? 2024
- Nieman Lab You might discover a conspiracy theory on social media, but you’re more likely to believe it if you hear it from a friend 2024
- Washington Post Americans are losing faith in food safety. Is the system to blame? 2024
- Boston Globe Conspiracy theories about Trump’s assassination attempt have exploded. Here’s why. 2024
- Boston Globe Misinformation roiled the 2016 and 2020 elections. Here’s what to expect as 2024 races heat up. 2024
- Scientific American People, not Google’s algorithm, create their own partisan ‘bubbles’ online 2023
- Washington Post How many people died believing vaccine misinformation? 2022
- The Atlantic Stop calling it a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ 2021
- New York Times We need to understand the difference between isolation and loneliness 2021
- Vox Why no one really knows how bad Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem is 2021
- WIRED Let’s keep the vaccine misinformation problem in perspective 2021
- Washington Post People are more anti-vaccine if they get their COVID news from Facebook 2021
- Washington Post These nine swing states will see the biggest ‘blue shift’ 2020
- Wall Street Journal Actually, we will know a lot on election night 2020
- New York Times Young people more likely to believe virus misinformation, study says 2020
- WIRED The US is disastrously behind in Covid-19 testing. Again. 2020
- RealClearPolitics How a public health crisis becomes a public trust crisis 2020
- Washington Post These governors are reopening their states faster than their voters want 2020
- WIRED The political Twitter bots will rage this election day 2016
- NPR Data scientists find consistencies in Donald Trump’s erratic Twitter strategy 2016
- Politico The data behind Trump’s Twitter takeover 2016
- Politico What to expect in the Dem debate? We crunched the last one 2015
- Politico Debate data reveals it’s still the Trump show 2015
- Politico Trump won the debate, or at least talked the most 2015
- Politico How Congress sees the world, in charts 2015
- Politico What politicians talk about when they talk about coal 2015