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...
Feb 1, 2023 | Article, Featured, News, PennMAP, Production, Projects
Part of its Penn Media Accountability Project (PennMAP), the CSSLab launches the first in a series of interactive data visualizations. The new dashboard is designed to make their research on YouTube radicalization accessible and engaging to the general public — and,...
Dec 20, 2022 | News, PennMAP
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...
