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What Keeps Fact-Checking Organizations up at Night

Fact-checkers find reaching their audience, using social media effectively, gaining credibility, and achieving an impact the most important impact-related challenges in their work, according to a newly released CMDS report.

CMDS Welcomes New Researchers

March 2, 2021

We are happy to announce that four young researchers have joined our Center to work as interns on various projects.

Journalism in Myanmar: Back to the Dark Ages?

February 23, 2021

Did you miss our event on journalism in Myanmar? You can now watch the recording.

CEU Students Join CMDS Investigative Project

February 22, 2021

A new cohort of CEU MA students has joined the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) to work on an investigation whose results will be published in a journalistic report in June 2021.

Online Harms: Why We Need a Systems-Based Approach Towards Internet Regulation

February 19, 2021

"People should remain free to state their opinions online (providing they do not break the law in doing so, nor violate the terms of service of a commercial contract), but those opinions do not have to reach the widest audience in ways that sacrifice the public interest for advertising revenue. It is the difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach."