Dozens of states are suing Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harmful to children’s mental health.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Arthur DeGaetano is director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and an expert on climate data.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a case that could have major implications on how tech platforms host and promote content. The following Cornell University experts are available to discuss the case.

Cornell Tech

Computing & Information Sciences

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Elon Musk purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him to company’s largest shareholder, after criticizing the platform’s approach to free speech.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

science

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Pfizer and BioNTech have begun a clinical trial for an Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccine candidate. But Dr. Luis Schang, a virologist at Cornell University, says while it makes sense to develop a specific vaccine against Omicron, we should not lose sight of what is already available.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

science

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Cornell University expert available to discuss the future of commercial space travel. 

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp experienced an extended outage yesterday. Nate Foster is a professor of computer science who works to develop languages and tools that make it easy for programmers to build secure and reliable systems. 

Computing & Information Sciences

Engineering

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Elizabeth Buckles, an expert on emerging diseases in avian and non-domestic animals, comments on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's move to reclassify northern long-eared bats as endangered.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Veterinary Medicine

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Allen Carlson is an associate professor of government at Cornell University and an expert on Chinese foreign policy, he says that the Taiwanese president is walking a fine line on her U.S. visit.

International

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Greeshma Gadikota, director of the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group at Cornell University’s College of Engineering, and Phillip Milner, professor of chemical and chemical biology at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, comment on the Biden administration's push to support carbon capture technology.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

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