The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science, and the Center for Survey Research present Professor Adam Berinsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will speak about fake news and political rumors on April 18 at East Carolina University. Berinsky is a professor of political science at MIT and serves as the director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL). He is the author of the book, In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America (Princeton University Press, 2004).