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Googling the Big Lie: Search Engines, News Media, and the US 2020 Election Conspiracy
Ernesto de León, Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman +1
The conspiracy theory that the US 2020 presidential election was fraudulent - the Big Lie - remained a prominent part of the media agenda months after the election. Whether and how…
This is what a pandemic looks like: Visual framing of COVID-19 on search engines
Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa
In today's high-choice media environment, search engines play an integral role in informing individuals and societies about the latest events. The importance of search algorithms i…
Detecting race and gender bias in visual representation of AI on web search engines
Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa
Web search engines influence perception of social reality by filtering and ranking information. However, their outputs are often subjected to bias that can lead to skewed represent…
Auditing Source Diversity Bias in Video Search Results Using Virtual Agents
Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh, Roberto Ulloa
We audit the presence of domain-level source diversity bias in video search results. Using a virtual agent-based approach, we compare outputs of four Western and one non-Western se…