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Fear and Loathing in the Time of Covid-19

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Justin Frewen

Fear plays a major role in influencing the decisions we make and the actions we engage in. Research has shown that there are sound evolutionary reasons for this. The selection pressures from these types of danger have resulted in domain-specificity in the reactivity of the fear system, meaning that the system has evolved special sensitivity … Read more

The Legal Challenge of Preventing Future Misinfodemics in the Age of Digital Activism

April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 Ethan Shattock

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen a deluge of misleading advice, false rumours, and coordinated attempts to contravene expert advice. Over the years, it’s become popular to collectively refer to this as fake news. This was a term that gained traction throughout the 2016 Presidential Election in the United States, and has become … Read more