The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis that showed the fragility of democracy in Taiwan, where misinformation threatened the three pillars that define the nation’s government and civil society.

UC Davis economist Òscar Jordà looks back at his economic estimates at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national fiscal response that sought to keep jobs and tame inflation during an unprecedented global crisis.

Over the past few years, there have been extensive changes in content moderation policy on social media platforms. As companies like X and Meta loosen these policies, users have reported an increase in hate speech. So what caused this shift? Professor Cuihua (Cindy) Shen, who specializes in computational communication, provided insight into the evolving policies of major social media platforms, the rise of hate speech, and the role of algorithms in its spread.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the education of nearly all children, but a new Center for Poverty and Inequality Research analysis shows how the COVID-19 pandemic intensified inequality between K-12 students based on their race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.