Inspired by a small protest outside a Tesla charging station in Maine, Joan Donovan, an assistant professor of journalism and emerging media studies at the Boston University College of Communication, made a flyer and promoted the Boston protest on social media.
Date: Feb 16, 2025
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Harvard Facebook Relationship Researcher Joan Donovan Fired
"By longstanding policy to uphold academic standards, all research projects at Harvard Kennedy School need to be led by faculty members. Joan Donovan was hired as a staff member (not a faculty member) to manage a media manipulation project. When the original faculty leader of the project left Harvar
Date: Dec 10, 2023
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Harvard Kennedy School Affiliates Praise Outgoing Dean Elmendorf's Tenure, But Acknowledge Controversies | News
Under Elmendorf, the Kennedy School has also made controversial decisions to combine the schools MPA and MPP programs, force out Harvard misinformation expert Joan Donovan, and merge student-run policy journals into one.
Date: Sep 11, 2023
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Facebook banning all QAnon accounts to stop 'militarized social movements'
We have to think about the QAnon networks as rails upon which misinformation is driven, Joan Donovan, research director at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, told NBC.
Date: Oct 06, 2020
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Shootings Renew Debate Over How to Combat Domestic Terrorism
Its been a very long few years of getting platform companies to understand the role that digital media plays in spreading hate speech, harassment and incitement to violence, said Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change project at the Harvard Kennedy Schools Shorenstein Center.
Date: Aug 05, 2019
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YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
YouTubes ban of white supremacists could prompt a similar cycle of outrage and grievance, said Joan Donovan, the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard. The ban, she said, presents an opportunity for content creators to get a wave of media attention, so we may see
Date: Jun 05, 2019
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The New Zealand shooting shows how YouTube and Facebook spread hate and violent images — yet again
With live-streaming, "the potential for profit and notoriety are astronomical, and that can incentivize certain types of behavior," said Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center. "The point isn't to gain attention to the v
Date: Mar 15, 2019
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From Silicon Valley elite to social media hate: The radicalization that led to Gab
Torba needed to essentially build a movement to attract users and media attention, said Joan Donovan, a researcher for the think tank Data & Society who has studied Gab. He was always building a platform for people who feared they could not say what they wanted to say on Facebook or Twitter."