Major social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are attempting to dilute the spread of fake news by implementing independent fact checkers on posts that promote false information about the coronavirus, vaccines, mail-in ballots, QAnon conspiracies or the Holocaust. According to Niko Poulakos, a communications professor at the University of Rhode Island, in a…
University organizes clinics, hopes to immunize community Free flu shots are available for University of Rhode Island students, faculty and staff. Graphic by Elizabeth Wong. On Oct. 20, the University of Rhode Island’s Health Services will host a free flu shot clinic open to students, faculty and staff. The clinic will be held in the…
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the University of Rhode Island will highlight the struggles that women faced gaining the right to vote in a new lecture series. The “Long Rhode to Vote” lecture series is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the University’s gender and women’s studies department, the College of…