Truth Decay

Beyond Bias

December 18, 2023 By Jyoti Madhusoodanan In a now-classic series of experiments, researchers teased out the deep-rooted nature of human bias simply by distributing red shirts and blue shirts to groups of 3- to 5-year-olds […]

Truth Decay

Polluted Minds

April 16, 2024 By Sherry Baker By 1992, burgeoning population, choking traffic, and explosive industrial growth in Mexico City had caused the United Nations to label it the most polluted urban area in the world. […]

Truth Decay

Anti-Trans Myths

How a political movement manufactured scientific misinformation and legitimized hate. November 6, 2023 By Simón(e) D. Sun and Florence Ashley We’ve watched with horror, but not with surprise, as a frenzy of anti-trans, queer, and […]

INFO-COMM

When News Isn’t News

  The formula for successful entertainment is short and sweet… conflict. Without conflict movies and television would have no viewers. By Michael Caporale When news programming learned this lesson, they introduced opposing pundits to create […]

INFO-COMM

Truth or Consequences

Understanding the Failure of Poor System Design: The Consequences we continue to experience Every day we hear stories of systematic failure, from heart-wrenching shootings to the crumbling of essential systems to social media fiascos that […]

INSIGHTS

Reinventing Production

Transforming from Extraction and Exploitation to Collaboration and Co-Creation “We are witnessing the emergence of a suite of new technologies that have the potential to revolutionize our production system. This new system, enabled by these […]