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“My greatest fear is that we're going to see some very real, ugly violence,” expert warns

University of Michigan faculty are available to offer insights on candidates and issues impacting the 2024 elections. The 2024 Elections Guide lists topics and issues in many areas, including politics, economics, immigration, public policy and law.

As TikTok gets more popular, researchers at leading academic institutions want to study what users are doing there. Publicly, the company says it’s open to this, and is partnering with academics. But researchers said so far, the video app’s rules about data are too burdensome.

The popular video site is making it difficult to gain access to its data.

TikTok is putting up obstacles to academic researchers looking to gain access to its data in order to understand the impact of the app on users.

Advocates say Musk's platform has consistently placed major ads on account associated with white nationalism

Feedback is disappointed to realise that older adults aren't considered in a piece of research about how texting while walking interferes with "locomotor tasks", but delighted to discover an academic with no fewer than 22 abbreviations attached to their name

Research can answer some of the world’s biggest questions -- how to treat cancer, solve poverty, deal with climate change --but others explore more off-the-wall topics.

A Washington Post report from Thursday cited two studies that linked climate change to a rise in "hate speech" and violent behavior, blaming higher temperatures.

Some social scientists argue that civility is a poor metric by which to judge the quality of an online debate.