Monash Lens
Tuesday, 16 March, 2021 was a dark day, yet oddly familiar. A gunman murdered eight people in metropolitan Atlanta in the US, six of whom were Asian women. That same day, 1245 Americans died of COVID-19.
Andrew Moshirnia
Senior Lecturer, Monash Business School
I’ve written about the need for special intervention to combat targeted social media misinformation stoking racial hatred in an era of random acts of terror.
The backdrop of the global pandemic, and yet another terror-inducing mass murder, amplifies the need for aggressive fact-checking, content moderation, and a preparedness to fact-check the fact-checkers. COVID-19 misinformation on social media is exceptionally dangerous, destabilising forces are likely to exploit it, and current firm safeguards against it are inadequate.
With misinformation spreading like wildfire across social media, fact-checking the fact-checkers is vital during the vaccination stage of the pandemic.
Bard Is Driving Toward a $1 Billion Endowment with Soros Donation
The college must match the philanthropist’s $500 million donation within five years, and it’s already halfway there.
Bard College could be the next $1 billion university endowment if it can match a $500 million grant from billionaire investor George Soros within the next five years. It has already raised $250 million toward that goal.
Until then, a Bard spokesman said the $500 million commitment from the Hungarian-born American investor will be held in his Quantum hedge funds, governed by Soros Fund Management, his family office. It is among the largest grants ever given to a higher education institution.
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