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...
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),...
