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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…
Grok in the Wild: Characterizing the Roles and Uses of Large Language Models on Social Media
Katelyn Xiaoying Mei, Robert Wolfe, Nicholas Weber +1
xAI's large language model, Grok, is called by millions of people each week on the social media platform X. Prior work characterizing how large language models are used has focused…
Community notes reduce engagement with and diffusion of false information online
Isaac Slaughter, Axel Peytavin, Johan Ugander +1
Social networks scaffold the diffusion of information on social media. Much attention has been given to the spread of true vs. false content on online social platforms, including t…
Supernotes: Driving Consensus in Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking
Soham De, Michiel A. Bakker, Jay Baxter +1
X's Community Notes, a crowd-sourced fact-checking system, allows users to annotate potentially misleading posts. Notes rated as helpful by a diverse set of users are prominently d…
Reranking Social Media Feeds: A Practical Guide for Field Experiments
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia +3
Social media plays a central role in shaping public opinion and behavior, yet performing experiments on these platforms and, in particular, on feed algorithms is becoming increasin…