Information Economy Project

Self-Inflicted Policy Errors Put Hong Kong’s Economy at Risk By Kevin Tsui (Feb. 06, 2020)

Should IBM and other international cloud computing enterprises move their Asian businesses away from Hong Kong? The prolonged US-China trade dispute, coupled with anti-government protests, could trigger an exodus of capital and talent from Hong Kong. Last October, Goldman Sachs estimated that Hong Kong may have lost US$4 billion of capital to Singapore. More recently, […]

Troll Hunters: Clemson professors race to expose social media propoganda (Jan. 16, 2020)

Patrick Warren, associate professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics, and Darren Linvill, associate professor in the Department of Communication, expose the methods used by Russian trolls and educate students on how to be more cautious social media users. “Destroying empathy is their end goal, and disgust is the mechanism,” Warren said. “Infect enough […]