With Journalism’s Shift to the Creator Economy Comes the End of Shared Facts
Local newsrooms are collapsing as journalism shifts toward platform-driven creator models that reward personality,…
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The Reality Behind Nigeria’s ‘Christian Genocide’
Claims of a Christian genocide in Nigeria are going viral in US politics, but they distort a crisis rooted in…
MIR Meets: Katherine Dee
Host Blaise Brosnan sits down with Substack writer and internet culture reporter Katherine Dee, to discuss the…
Platforms of Propaganda: How Social Media Sites Facilitate and Spread…
Propaganda has been used for thousands of years to manipulate public opinion, yet disinformation on social media is…
Covid and Climate Change: Why Is Poland Failing at Both?
Climate change is not the only crisis where the Polish government has chosen to embrace conspiracies rather than…
Mask Hysteria: The Lab Leak Theory
Host Andrew Xu sits down once again with Umair Irfan, a science reporter who covers the pandemic at Vox. They…
Free Speech in the Internet Age: America Needs to Have a Conversation
The free speech debate is important in more ways than one. As our modes of expression change, so must our thinking…
Spotlight: COVID-19 From A Public Health Perspective
This week on Spotlight, host Naomi Shi sits down with MIR Writer of the Week, Alua Kulenova, to talk about her…
Opinion | The Pain of Digging Deeper
Discussion and dialogue are undoubtedly necessary for affecting change in our society, but simply exposing…
Facebook’s Fight Over Free Speech
Although Warren and Zuckerberg differ in their stances on protected speech, both coalesce around the same goal of…