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Challenging Partisan Expectations Reduces Political Polarization
Do Won Kim, Ozgur Can Seckin, Saumya Bhadani +3
Political conversations are often proposed as a remedy for political polarization, yet their effectiveness remains inconsistent. We argue that this inconsistency partly reflects a…
Platform architecture determines whether recommendation algorithms can shape information quality on social media
Mohammad Hammas Saeed, David A. Broniatowski, Joseph Simons +3
Social media platforms shape public discourse through two fundamental design choices that naturally co-occur in any field investigation: platform architecture, which defines what t…
Understanding the Gap Between Stated and Revealed Preferences in News Curation: A Study of Young Adult Social Media Users
Do Won Kim, Cody Buntain, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
Social media feed algorithms infer user preferences from their past behaviors. Yet what drives engagement often diverges from what users value. We examine this gap between stated p…
MurkySky: Analyzing News Reliability on Bluesky
Vikas Reddy, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
Bluesky has recently emerged as a lively competitor to Twitter/X for a platform for public discourse and news sharing. Most of the research on Bluesky so far has focused on charact…
Survival of the Notable: Gender Asymmetry in Wikipedia Collective Deliberations
Khandaker Tasnim Huq, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
Communities on the web rely on open conversation forums for a number of tasks, including governance, information sharing, and decision making. However these forms of collective del…
Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models
Isabelle Augenstein, Timothy Baldwin, Meeyoung Cha +15
The emergence of tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing Chat, and Google's Bard, has garnered immense public attention. These incre…