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Reexamining Misinformation: How Unflagged, Factual Content Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

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...

Homa Hosseinmardi and Sam Wolken Speak at Annenberg Workshop

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),...

Estimating the Effect of YouTube Recommendations with Homa Hosseinmardi

Mar 26, 2024 | News

In Analytics at Wharton’s Research Spotlight series, we highlight research by Wharton and Penn faculty, doctoral students, and researchers whose work focuses on innovations and applications of data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence. This month, we...

Joe Biden’s (but not Donald Trump’s) age: A case study in the New York Times’ inconsistent narrative selection and framing

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...

Hyperpartisan consumption on YouTube is shaped more by user preferences than the algorithm

Mar 5, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP, Published

Given the sheer amount of content produced every day on a platform as large as YouTube, which hosts over 14 billion videos, the need for some sort of algorithmic curation is inevitable. As YouTube has attracted millions of views on partisan videos of a conspiratorial...