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The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement
Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +41
We report the first direct comparisons of multiple alternative social media algorithms on multiple platforms on outcomes of societal interest. We used a browser extension to modify…
Follow Nudges without Budges: A Field Experiment on Misinformation Followers Didn't Change Follow Networks
Laura Kurek, Joshua Ashkinaze, Ceren Budak +1
Can digital ads encourage users exposed to inaccurate information sources to follow accurate ones? We conduct a large-scale field experiment (N=28,582) on X, formerly Twitter, with…
Outsourcing an Information Operation: A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media's Podcasts on Rumble
Laura Kurek, Kevin Zheng, Eric Gilbert +1
Tenet Media, a U.S.-based, right-wing media company, hired six established podcasters to create content related to U.S. politics and culture during the 2024 U.S. presidential elect…
Wikipedia in Wartime: Experiences of Wikipedians Maintaining Articles About the Russia-Ukraine War
Laura Kurek, Ceren Budak, Eric Gilbert
How do Wikipedians maintain an accurate encyclopedia during an ongoing geopolitical conflict where state actors might seek to spread disinformation or conduct an information operat…
The Dynamics of (Not) Unfollowing Misinformation Spreaders
Joshua Ashkinaze, Eric Gilbert, Ceren Budak
Many studies explore how people 'come into' misinformation exposure. But much less is known about how people 'come out of' misinformation exposure. Do people organically sever ties…
Bridging Nations: Quantifying the Role of Multilinguals in Communication on Social Media
Julia Mendelsohn, Sayan Ghosh, David Jurgens +1
Social media enables the rapid spread of many kinds of information, from memes to social movements. However, little is known about how information crosses linguistic boundaries. We…
'Walking Into a Fire Hoping You Don't Catch': Strategies and Designs to Facilitate Cross-Partisan Online Discussions
Ashwin Rajadesingan, Carolyn Duran, Paul Resnick +1
While cross-partisan conversations are central to a vibrant democracy, these are hard conversations to have, especially in the United States amidst unprecedented levels of partisan…
More than Meets the Tie: Examining the Role of Interpersonal Relationships in Social Networks
Minje Choi, Ceren Budak, Daniel M. Romero +1
Topics in conversations depend in part on the type of interpersonal relationship between speakers, such as friendship, kinship, or romance. Identifying these relationships can prov…
Political Discussion is Abundant in Non-political Subreddits (and Less Toxic)
Ashwin Rajadesingan, Ceren Budak, Paul Resnick
Research on online political communication has primarily focused on content in explicitly political spaces. In this work, we set out to determine the amount of political talk misse…
A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter
Lisa Singh, Shweta Bansal, Leticia Bode +7
Since December 2019, COVID-19 has been spreading rapidly across the world. Not surprisingly, conversation about COVID-19 is also increasing. This article is a first look at the amo…
Shocking the Crowd: The Effect of Censorship Shocks on Chinese Wikipedia
Ark Fangzhou Zhang, Danielle Livneh, Ceren Budak +2
Collaborative crowdsourcing has become a popular approach to organizing work across the globe. Being global also means being vulnerable to shocks -- unforeseen events that disrupt…