Day archives: June 11th, 2024

Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation

“From unreliable AI-generated news outlets operating with little to no human oversight, to fabricated images produced by AI image generators, the rollout of generative artificial intelligence tools has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike.  This AI Tracking Center is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

New Dataset of State Interest Group Policy Positions in the United States

“Research on the activities and influence of interest groups in state legislatures faces a data problem: we are missing a comprehensive, systematic dataset of interest groups’ policy preferences on state legislation. We address this gap by introducing the Dataset on Policy Choice and Organizational Representation in the United States (CHORUS). This dataset compiles over 13 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Common sunscreen myths, debunked

Vox: “Despite the extremely well-established science linking sun exposure to skin cancer, bad sun safety advice on social media simply will not stop — and a lot of people are buying it. In several recent surveys, between one and three out of every 10 adults believed a range of falsehoods about sunscreen and sun exposure; …

Subjects: Health Care

US Postpartum Mortality Rate 395 Percent Higher Than Other Wealthy Countries

TruthOut: “A new report from The Commonwealth Fund shows that, despite better outcomes since the pandemic, the United States “continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation” in the world. Around four out of five of these deaths “are likely preventable,” the report states, suggesting that the U.S. could save …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

FBI Releases 2024 Quarterly Crime Report and Use-of-Force Data Update

“On Monday, June 10, 2024, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released the Quarterly Uniform Crime Report (Q1), January-March, 2024 and the National Use-of-Force Data Collection Update, March 2024, on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE) at https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov. The Quarterly Uniform Crime Report (Q1), January-March, 2024, provides a preliminary look at crime trends for …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

State tax revenues

Data is Plural – “How much money do US states collect through different types of taxes? The Census Bureau’s Quarterly Summary of State and Local Government Tax Revenue provides these figures every three months, going back decades. The categories include taxes on property, income, general sales, sales of specific products (such as tobacco, alcohol, gas, …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents