Jun 25, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
The CSSLab’s Media Bias Detector empowers users to analyze bias in major news outlets, not just based on the outlets’ political leaning, but on the topics they choose to cover. (Maria Vonotna via Getty Images) Every day, American news outlets collectively publish...
Jun 10, 2024 | News, PennMAP, Projects
New data visualizations from the Computational Social Science Lab show how Americans consume news. With political polarization in the American public at a record high, determining where Americans get their political news is crucial to making sense of the impact of...
Jun 10, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
The Computational Social Sciences Lab’s (CSSLab) new dashboard, Mapping the (Political) Information Ecosystem, is a set of four data visualizations that highlight Americans’ media consumption habits, with a focus on echo chambers and the news. This is the second of a...
Jun 3, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
Credit: Marcela Viera/iStock New MIT Sloan research shows that unflagged but misleading content on Facebook was less persuasive, but much more widely seen, and thus generated more COVID-19 vaccine skepticism than flagged misinformation. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May...
May 31, 2024 | News, PennMAP
Factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot. (Marcela Vieira via Getty Images) What threatens public health more, a deliberately false Facebook post about tracking...
