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This article was originally published on The Conversation and is republished here with permission.

If a...

This article was originally posted on The Conversation and is reposted here with permission.

Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they are seeing is the result of automated propaganda campaigns....

Just as in 2016, a new USC study finds that automated accounts and foreign interference are infesting social media conversations about the upcoming election.

Bots and conspiracy theorists have infested the Twitter chatter around the upcoming U.S. presidential election, USC researchers have found.

Looking at more than 240 million election-related tweets, the study found that...

A self-described “special geek” who cut class to go the library, Megan Stielstra found her calling as an author and educator while poring over novels by J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood and Richard Wright.

“I was reading Black Boy , Wright’s memoir about growing up in the Jim Crow South,” Stielstra said. “In the chapter where he gets a library card, he describes...

The COVID-19 pandemic will remain the dominant topic for Americans in nearly every aspect of their lives in 2021, according to a survey in the USC Center for Public Relations ’ annual Relevance Report . When asked about news they will consume, 44%...

LAPD receives a flood of calls about landlord-tenant disputes during COVID-19.

On Sept. 1, police in Los Angeles responded to almost twice as many landlord-tenant disputes as they had on the day rent was due just one month before. Now, rent day is approaching again, and so is the potential for more confrontation, as the economy limps along due to the coronavirus, and...

The nonprofit media advocacy organization Define American , in collaboration with the Norman Lear Center Media Impact Project...

Daniel Alejandro Leon-Davis emigrated from Venezuela to Florida with his mother when he was 6 years old. Coming to the United States at such a young age, he says he grew up “feeling as American as everybody else.”

“Being an immigrant in Miami, or frankly even Orlando, where I graduated from high school, didn’t feel like being the ‘other,’” he said. “It felt like the norm. So, I didn’t...