The YouTube Algorithm Isn’t Radicalizing People

The YouTube Algorithm Isn’t Radicalizing People

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...
Warped Front Pages

Warped Front Pages

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....
How Data Analytics Can Help Deliver Social Good

How Data Analytics Can Help Deliver Social Good

The second of this year’s Wharton Beyond Business panels explored how data science innovations are bringing solutions to previously intractable social problems. Innovations in data science are finding uses beyond business settings to bring effective solutions to...