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Search engines in polarized media environment: Auditing political information curation on Google and Bing prior to 2024 US elections
Mykola Makhortykh, Tobias Rorhbach, Maryna Sydorova +1
Search engines play an important role in the context of modern elections. By curating information in response to user queries, search engines influence how individuals are informed…
Google, How Should I Vote? How Users Formulate Search Queries to Find Political Information on Search Engines
Victoria Vziatysheva, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova +1
Search engine results depend not only on the algorithms but also on how users interact with them. However, factors affecting the selection of a search query remain understudied. Us…
LLMs as information warriors? Auditing how LLM-powered chatbots tackle disinformation about Russia's war in Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Ani Baghumyan, Victoria Vziatysheva +2
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has a significant impact on information warfare. By facilitating the production of content related to disinformation and propaganda campaig…
Finding frames with BERT: A transformer-based approach to generic news frame detection
Vihang Jumle, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova +1
Framing is among the most extensively used concepts in the field of communication science. The availability of digital data offers new possibilities for studying how specific aspec…
Finding the white male: The prevalence and consequences of algorithmic gender and race bias in political Google searches
Tobias Rohrbach, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova
Search engines like Google have become major information gatekeepers that use artificial intelligence (AI) to determine who and what voters find when searching for political inform…