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.

Built at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the RIO program automatically detects and analyzes social media accounts that spread disinformation across a network.

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

Study uncovers overlooked environmental impacts of internet use by estimating associated carbon, land, and water footprints.

Social media users share charts and graphs — often with the same underlying data — to advocate opposing approaches to the pandemic.

Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.