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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…
Algorithmically Curated Lies: How Search Engines Handle Misinformation about US Biolabs in Ukraine
Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova +3
The growing volume of online content prompts the need for adopting algorithmic systems of information curation. These systems range from web search engines to recommender systems a…
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…
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…
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…