New research by political science PhD candidate Meicen Sun illuminates the broad economic and political impacts of internet restrictions.

Experiment with Facebook-flagged content shows groups of laypeople reliably rate stories as effectively as fact-checkers do.

In the U.S. and globally, cultures with a high level of collectivism tend to encourage masking during the pandemic.

Study: On social media, most people do care about accurate news but need reminders not to spread misinformation.

Guillermo Toral PhD '20 finds health care quality drops in months leading up to mayoral elections, and if the incumbent loses, the quality continues to fall.

MIT professor’s study quantifies how many mail-in ballots became “lost votes” in the 2016 U.S. federal election.

Study measures the “blue shift” from absentee and provisional ballots, underscores uncertainties of 2020 vote.

U.S. elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.

Even when people believed Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election, they did not use “she” to refer to the next president.

Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.