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The Prosocial Ranking Challenge: Reducing Polarization on Social Media without Sacrificing Engagement
Jonathan Stray, Ian Baker, George Beknazar-Yuzbashev +41
We report the first direct comparisons of multiple alternative social media algorithms on multiple platforms on outcomes of societal interest. We used a browser extension to modify…
Rabble-Rousers in the New King's Court: Algorithmic Effects on Account Visibility in Pre-X Twitter
Alexandros Efstratiou, Kayla Duskin, Kate Starbird +1
Algorithmic effects on social media platforms have come under recent scrutiny, with several studies reporting that right-leaning accounts tend to receive more exposure. In this pap…
The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou +2
Social media platforms shape users' experiences through the algorithmic systems they deploy. In this study, we examine to what extent Twitter's content recommender, in conjunction…
Political Fact-Checking Efforts are Constrained by Deficiencies in Coverage, Speed, and Reach
Morgan Wack, Kayla Duskin, Damian Hodel
Fact-checking has been promoted as a key method for combating political misinformation. Comparing the spread of election-related misinformation narratives along with their relevant…
ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the 2022 US Midterms
Joseph S Schafer, Kayla Duskin, Stephen Prochaska +7
Understanding the spread of online rumors is a pressing societal challenge and an active area of research across domains. In the context of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, one inf…
Echo Chambers in the Age of Algorithms: An Audit of Twitter's Friend Recommender System
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Jevin D. West +1
The presence of political misinformation and ideological echo chambers on social media platforms is concerning given the important role that these sites play in the public's exposu…