3 papers
cs.SI2024
NELA-PS: A Dataset of Pink Slime News Articles for the Study of Local News Ecosystems
Benjamin D. Horne, Maurício Gruppi
Pink slime news outlets automatically produce low-quality, often partisan content that is framed as authentic local news. Given that local news is trusted by Americans and is incre…
cs.CY2024
Embedding Elites: Examining the Use of Tweets Embedded in Online News Articles across Reliable and Fringe Outlets
Benjamin D. Horne, Summer Phillips, Nelia Koontz
This study examines the use of embedded tweets in online news media. In particular, we add to the previous literature by exploring embedded tweets across reliable and unreliable ne…
cs.CY2023
Examining the Production of Co-active Channels on YouTube and BitChute
Matthew C. Childs, Benjamin D. Horne
A concern among content moderation researchers is that hard moderation measures, such as banning content producers, will push users to more extreme information environments. Resear…