2 papers
cs.SI2021
Look who's watching: platform labels and user engagement on state-backed media outlets
Samantha Bradshaw, Mona Elswah, Antonella Perini
Recently, social media platforms have introduced several measures to counter misleading information. Among these measures are state media labels which help users identify and evalu…
cs.SI2018
Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States?
Philip N. Howard, Bence Kollanyi, Samantha Bradshaw +1
US voters shared large volumes of polarizing political news and information in the form of links to content from Russian, WikiLeaks and junk news sources. Was this low quality poli…