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20142024
most citedThe science of fake news

4k citations · 4k across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Framing in the Presence of Supporting Data: A Case Study in U.S. Economic News

Alexandria Leto, Elliot Pickens, Coen D. Needell +2

The mainstream media has much leeway in what it chooses to cover and how it covers it. These choices have real-world consequences on what people know and their subsequent behaviors…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

Prevalence and prevention of large language model use in crowd work

Veniamin Veselovsky, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Philip Cozzolino +3

We show that the use of large language models (LLMs) is prevalent among crowd workers, and that targeted mitigation strategies can significantly reduce, but not eliminate, LLM use.…

cs.CY2023★ 4k cited

The science of fake news

David M. J. Lazer, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler +13

Fake news emerged as an apparent global problem during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Addressing it requires a multidisciplinary effort to define the nature and extent of the…

cs.HC2023★ 27 cited

Comparing Traditional and LLM-based Search for Consumer Choice: A Randomized Experiment

Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, David M. Rothschild, Daniel G. Goldstein +1

Recent advances in the development of large language models are rapidly changing how online applications function. LLM-based search tools, for instance, offer a natural language in…

cs.GT2021★ 1 cited

Designing a Combinatorial Financial Options Market

Xintong Wang, David M. Pennock, Nikhil R. Devanur +3

Financial options are contracts that specify the right to buy or sell an underlying asset at a strike price by an expiration date. Standard exchanges offer options of predetermined…

cs.GT2021★ 3 cited

Combatting Gerrymandering with Ranked Choice Voting: An Experimental Analysis of Multi-member Districts in the United States

Nikhil Garg, Wes Gurnee, David Rothschild +1

Every representative democracy must specify a mechanism under which voters choose their representatives. The most common mechanism in the United States -- Winner takes all single-m…

stat.AP2021★ 8 cited

Blocks as geographic discontinuities: The effect of polling place assignment on voting

Sabina Tomkins, Keniel Yao, Johann Gaebler +4

A potential voter must incur a number of costs in order to successfully cast an in-person ballot, including the costs associated with identifying and traveling to a polling place.…

cs.GT2021

Log-time Prediction Markets for Interval Securities

Miroslav Dudík, Xintong Wang, David M. Pennock +1

We design a prediction market to recover a complete and fully general probability distribution over a random variable. Traders buy and sell interval securities that pay $1 if the…

cs.SI2014★ 2 cited

The Mythical Swing Voter

David Rothschild, Sharad Goel, Andrew Gelman +1

The only acceptable form of polling in the multi-billion dollar survey research field utilizes representative samples. We argue that with proper statistical adjustment, non-represe…