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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…
Quantifying attention via dwell time and engagement in a social media browsing environment
Ziv Epstein, Hause Lin, Gordon Pennycook +1
Modern computational systems have an unprecedented ability to detect, leverage and influence human attention. Prior work identified user engagement and dwell time as two key metric…
How many others have shared this? Experimentally investigating the effects of social cues on engagement, misinformation, and unpredictability on social media
Ziv Epstein, Hause Lin, Gordon Pennycook +1
Unlike traditional media, social media typically provides quantified metrics of how many users have engaged with each piece of content. Some have argued that the presence of these…
Exploring Lightweight Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on Social Media
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Amy X. Zhang, Adam J. Berinsky +3
When users on social media share content without considering its veracity, they may unwittingly be spreading misinformation. In this work, we investigate the design of lightweight…