Publications (4)
Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US
Vidya Narayanan, Vlad Barash, John Kelly +3
What kinds of social media users read junk news? We examine the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three months before President Donald Trump first St…
InfoOps Bench: A live information operations safety benchmark
Dorian Quelle, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Jonathan Bright +1
The paper introduces InfoOps Bench, a continuously updated benchmark that measures how easily frontier language models can be co-opted for state-backed information operations, usin…
Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States?
Philip N. Howard, Bence Kollanyi, Samantha Bradshaw +1
US voters shared large volumes of polarizing political news and information in the form of links to content from Russian, WikiLeaks and junk news sources. Was this low quality poli…
Junk News & Information Sharing During the 2019 UK General Election
Nahema Marchal, Bence Kollanyi, Lisa-Maria Neudert +2
Today, an estimated 75% of the British public access information about politics and public life online, and 40% do so via social media. With this context in mind, we investigate in…