How Disinformation Changed in 2020, Rethinking Social Insurance, and More

January 9, 2021

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Rethinking social insurance: Policies to protect workers and families

In November 2020, total U.S. employment was still 9.8 million workers below where it stood in February 2020. With the labor market in rough shape, Wendy Edelberg and Stephanie Lu discuss how changes to the social insurance system can help strengthen the economy and enhance individual economic security.

How disinformation evolved in 2020

Between 2018 and 2020, Facebook and Twitter announced that they had taken down 147 influence operations in total. The Stanford Internet Observatory's Josh Goldstein and Shelby Grossman share five takeaways on how online disinformation campaigns and platform responses changed last year, and how they didn't.

The secret sauce behind Israel's successful COVID-19 vaccination program

Over 14% of Israeli citizens have already received their COVID-19 vaccinations. Dany Bahar discusses this impressive achievement and explains why Israel's vaccination effort has been more successful than richer and larger countries such as the United States and many European nations.

The siege of the US Capitol

How the world is reacting. Brookings Foreign Policy experts provide insight on how global leaders and officials are responding to Wednesday's violence in Washington, D.C.

What the failed 'self-coup' means for America. "The events reveal the fragility of America's institutions and of its democracy, and its vulnerability to political violence and threats," writes Charles Call.

Will Trump be removed from power? On an episode of The Current podcast, John Hudak discusses how Congress could remove President Trump from power before his term ends on January 20.

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