Professor Filippo Menczer is the principal investigator on this grant and director of the organization. “We’re studying basically any kind of information that gets communicated from a person to a ...

In a letter to lawmakers Tuesday, five of the nation’s top computing research organizations defended a research grant to study how information goes viral. The groups were responding to claims that the ...

A new study finds a sinister side to memes, pointing to their role in strengthening online communities of conspiracy ...