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...
May 20, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
Homa Hosseinmardi and Sam Wolken of the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab) were recently invited to speak at the Political and Information Networks Workshop on April 25-26. This workshop was organized by the Center for Information Networks and Democracy (CIND),...
Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
By David Rothschild, Jenny Wang, and Duncan Watts Figure 1: Landing page of New York Times on Sunday March 3, 2024 On the weekend of March 2-3, 2024, the landing page of the New York Times was dominated by coverage of their poll showing voter concern over...
