3 papers
cs.CY2026
AI-Powered Browsers Are Broadly Accurate News Summarizers That Reduce Political Bias and Negative Affect
Yan Xia, Dominik Batorski, Erin Wertz +3
Web browsers now provide AI-generated news summaries for millions of users. Despite their popularity and influence, we lack a systematic understanding of how these systems transfor…
cs.SI2025
Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Szymon Talaga, Erin Wertz, Dominik Batorski +1
Platforms, especially Facebook, are primary news sources in the US. In its widely criticized "War on News," Meta algorithmically deprioritized news and political content. We use da…
cs.SI2025
Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Szymon Talaga, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
Although news negativity is often studied, missing is comparative evidence on the prevalence of and engagement with negative political and non-political news posts on social media.…