Ahmed

MPA student at Harvard Kennedy School

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

How the Left has ignored YouTube and focussed mostly on cable news and twitter https://t.co/bUXLprz1aJ #MPPDigital

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Corona has impacted all areas of life and it seems it will be the death knell for local journalism in a time when we need it most https://t.co/TljwvOxeEC #MPPdigital

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Russia and the German Far Right taking advantage of the Corona crisis to spead misinformation. What are there chances?
https://t.co/VIvJM9BNsB #MPPDigital

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

The role of social media during the epidemic: https://t.co/PVJwwyJYF4 #MPPDigital

[Brian Schaffner @b_schaffner]

an update on the how the relationship between partisanship and google search traffic for "hand sanitizer" evolved across US media markets during the past couple of weeks

(and my first foray into using gganimate)

more on data and code here: https://t.co/0a8oGptZw4

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Not all rumors are fake news: https://t.co/v8fWhyTcJh
How will society deal with the spread of misinformation in the times of a public health crisis? #MPPdigital

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The key is that policymakers need to be flexible and evidence-driven. We'll know a lot more in 3 weeks than we know today, and a lot more in 6 weeks than in 3 weeks.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The better testing/tracking you have, the less social distancing you need to achieve equivalent health outcomes. You can focus social distancing efforts more precisely at people who are sick or at immediate risk of being sick and others can get back to normal life a bit more.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I know people have made this point. But I don't it's totally sunk in how much there's a fairly direct 1:1 trade-off between better testing/tracking on the one hand, and the need for radical, society-wide social distancing (with all its consequences) on the other hand.

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

To tease the outcome: "YouTube has decided which types of misinformation it wants to root out and which types it is willing to allow"

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Has YouTube been successful in quieting conspiracy theories? NYT reports on a new study examining just that: https://t.co/Qfd8tePj5h #MPPdigital

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Has YouTube been successful in quieting conspiracy theories? NYT reports on a new study examining just that: https://t.co/Qfd8tePj5h #MPPdigital

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Social media allegedly played a role in his downfall. How did it react to his death? #MPPdigital
https://t.co/LM1dmu9OXN

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Germany's public TV station decides to increase the local and regional content in its news section given the death of local reporting outside of big cities
https://t.co/UGkZ4piDOP
#mppdigital

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

On the power a platform has to determine what we can and cannot read. https://t.co/2cGxFuNaQc #mppdigital

[Ahmed @Gaafari80s]

Interesting take on how big corporates are trying to weaken section 230 https://t.co/rFOucyjDhv #mppdigital