The Prospector

Study: Nearly half of adults don’t discuss politics

Paulina Astrid Spencer, Staff Reporter • Feb 24, 2020

With the current political climate and the 2020 election just around the corner, many have turned away from having political conversations with someone, according to an analysis of data from the Pew Research Center’s Election News Pathways (PRCENP)...

Be more attentive if you get your news from Facebook

Rene Delgadillo , Staff Reporter • Feb 28, 2017

The future generations of the U.S. might be in serious trouble if they continue their inability to distinguish real news from fake news. A 2016 study from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education has found less than a third of college students from three...

Randi Zuckerberg makes memorable stop at UTEP

Claudia Hernandez, Reporter • Feb 21, 2017

Randi Zuckerberg, a Harvard alumni and the former director of market development and spokesperson for Facebook, made a stop at UTEP on Tuesday to talk about the role of media in society's everyday life. The inventor of Facebook live explained how...

Randi Zuckerberg to make a stop on campus

Jason Green • Feb 14, 2017

New York Times best-selling author, Harvard graduate, Emmy-nominated television anchor, early Facebook marketing manager and current media mogul, Randi Zuckerberg, will be speaking on campus at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the Undergraduate Learning Center,...

“Nearby Friends” makes creepy debut on Facebook

Maria Esquinca, Staff reporter • Apr 17, 2014

Glenn Greenwald released one of the biggest stories of the year in June 2013. The Guardian headline read “NSA Collecting Millions of Verizon Customers Daily.” Since then, an unprecedented amount of information has been released disclosing the extent...