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...
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...
Feb 19, 2024 | News, PennMAP
A new study from the Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on user’s political views than is commonly believed. About a quarter of a quarter of Americans get their news on YouTube. With its billions of...
Nov 29, 2023 | News, PennMAP
Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news Photo by Charles Guerin/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images) Seven years ago, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, media analysts rushed to explain Donald Trump’s victory....
Nov 1, 2023 | News, PennMAP, Published
“Deplatforming” refers to the banning of individuals, communities, or entire websites that spread misinformation or hate speech. Social media platforms implement this practice to reduce harmful content, but its effectiveness is debatable. Researchers from the...
