collaboration
One idle Saturday afternoon I wreaked havoc on the virtual town of Harmony Square, “a green and pleasant place,” according to its founders, famous for its pond swan, living statue and Pineapple Pizza Festival. Using a fake news site called Megaphone tagged with the slogan “everything louder than everything else” and an army of bots, I ginned up outrage and divided the citizenry. In the end, Harmony Square was in shambles.
I thoroughly enjoyed my 10 minutes of villainy even laughed outright a few times. And that was the point. My beleaguered town is the centre of the action for the online game Breaking Harmony Square, a collaboration between the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, psychologists at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and DROG, a Dutch initiative that uses gaming and education to fight misinformation. In my role as chief disinformation officer of Harmony Square, I learned about the manipulation techniques people
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System Failure
The mission of senior care facilities to ease residents’ twilight years turned into a nightmare after state leaders failed to adequately separate COVID-19 patients from healthy individuals.
When COVID-19 started roiling through nursing homes last winter, Cecelia Payne had more
at stake than most. And her worst fears soon became reality. Her husband, Arnold Brown, 78, died of COVID-19 on April 24, 2020, at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens after being transferred there from the Martha T. Berry Medical Care Facility.
Brown, a former manufacturing tooling engineer before a stroke disabled him, had been in the Mt. Clemens skilled nursing facility since 2006. His roommate at the medical care facility died, as well. “I really do feel that he got it from a staff member,” Payne, of Macomb Township, says of her husband’s illness. “Especially when I learned his roommate had it, too.”
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On Monday, March 15, 2021, former California Attorney General
Xavier Becerra announced new regulations under the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which have been approved by the Office
of Administrative Law. According to the
press release, the
regulations purpose is to prohibit[] companies from
burdening consumers with confusing language or unnecessary steps
such as forcing them to click through multiple screens or listen to
reasons why they shouldn t opt out of the sale of their
personal information.
The regulations ban the use of so-called dark
patterns that confuse consumers with respect to their right
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While at-home schooling has created new challenges for families, researchers say there have been some benefits for typically underserved communities.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 education has been conducted largely online for more than a year. Researchers are examining the impact on kids.
Kristin Fontichiaro, University of Michigan School of Information clinical associate professor, recently co-wrote an editorial piece in the Journal of Children and Media on how remote learning has blurred the line between school and home life. She says the implications of that transition are starting to be recognized.
“There seems to be a sizable appetite for online learning for some students that will extend beyond the pandemic.” Kristin Fontichiaro, University of Michigan
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