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Who’s watching Facebook watch you?
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Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
 There's no way an independent assessor will be able to actually monitor how Facebook might violate or abuse users' privacy in key ways. | 
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Cindy Leung, University of Michigan; Julia A. Wolfson, University of Michigan
 With Congress rebuffing efforts to cut benefits, the White House is trying to change the rules.
Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Eric Hoyt, University of Massachusetts Amherst
 Two social scientists investigate why working class white men are particularly receptive to President Trump's racist and anti-immigrant messages. |  | 
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David Johnson, University of Maryland; Joseph Cesario, Michigan State University
 A new project looks at the race of on-duty police officers and civilians involved in 917 fatal shootings in 2015.
Lee McIntyre, Boston University
 To one scholar of the post-truth era, tuning in to Robert Mueller's testimony Wednesday was to hear a duel over the facts. Not what the facts imply – but what the facts are.
Jason Wright, Pennsylvania State University
 As more than a million people have indicated plans to partake in a citizen 'raid' on the famed Area 51 to 'see them aliens,' a scholar on the search for extraterrestrial life weighs in on the hype. |  | 
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