Mary Ellen Zurko pioneered user-centered security in the 1990s. Now she’s using those insights to help the nation thwart influence operations.

Graduate student Sarah Cen explores the interplay between humans and artificial intelligence systems, to help build accountability and trust.

A new study reveals how MIT’s campus design and architecture influence interaction among researchers.

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.

In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.

Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.

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

ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law.

Large-scale video campaign allowed physicians and public health messengers to encourage staying home over the 2020 holidays.

Professor Siqi Zheng promotes sustainable urbanization at MIT’s Center for Real Estate.