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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…
Improving the quality of individual-level online information tracking: challenges of existing approaches and introduction of a new content- and long-tail sensitive academic solution
Silke Adam, Mykola Makhortykh, Michaela Maier +6
This article evaluates the quality of data collection in individual-level desktop information tracking used in the social sciences and shows that the existing approaches face sampl…
Shall androids dream of genocides? How generative AI can change the future of memorialization of mass atrocities
Mykola Makhortykh, Eve M. Zucker, David J. Simon +2
The memorialization of mass atrocities such as war crimes and genocides facilitates the remembrance of past suffering, honors those who resisted the perpetrators, and helps prevent…
Where the Earth is flat and 9/11 is an inside job: A comparative algorithm audit of conspiratorial information in web search results
Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh, Roberto Ulloa +1
Web search engines are important online information intermediaries that are frequently used and highly trusted by the public despite multiple evidence of their outputs being subjec…