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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…
Do explanations increase the effectiveness of AI-crowd generated fake news warnings?
Ziv Epstein, Nicolò Foppiani, Sophie Hilgard +3
Social media platforms are increasingly deploying complex interventions to help users detect false news. Labeling false news using techniques that combine crowd-sourcing with artif…
The Game Theory of Fake News
Alexander J. Stewart, Antonio A. Arechar, David G. Rand +1
A great deal of empirical research has examined who falls for misinformation and why. Here, we introduce a formal game-theoretic model of engagement with news stories that captures…
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…
Time pressure and honesty in a deception game
Valerio Capraro, Jonathan Schulz, David G. Rand
Previous experiments have found mixed results on whether honesty is intuitive or requires deliberation. Here we add to this literature by building on prior work of Capraro (2017).…