The Twitter Social Mobility Index: Measuring Social Distancing Practices from Geolocated Tweets
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a Coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, has caused a pandemic on a scale unseen in a generation.
Academic Research
Vaccine acceptance is a crucial public health issue, which has been exacerbated by the use of social media to spread content opposing vaccination.
As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs.
Vaccine-related advertising in the Facebook Ad Archive
Facebook has over two billion active users, making it one of the largest communities in the world.
Identifying Nuances in Fake News vs. Satire: Using Semantic and Linguistic Cues
The efforts by social media platforms to reduce the exposure of users to misinformation have resulted, on several occasions, in flagging legitimate satire stories. To avoid penalizing publishers of...
Distrust and misinformation pose an acute global threat to established science and medicine, as well as political processes.
False Alarm: The Truth about Political Mistruths in the Trump Era
Americans are not invulnerable to factual information. They do not 'backfire'; facts do not make them less accurate.
Framing and Strategic Narratives: Synthesis and Analytical Framework
Standard journalistic tropes were of little use after the 2016 US elections. Talk of blue and red states was eclipsed by distressed discussions.
Government Role in Regulating Vaccine Misinformation on Social Media Platforms
Recognizing that interactive computer services offered a forum for true diversity of political discourse, Congress enacted the Communications Decency Act.
Elites and foreign actors among the alt-right: The Gab social media platform
Content regulation and censorship of social media platforms is increasingly discussed by governments and the platforms themselves.
In Search of Meaning: Why We Still Don't Know What Digital Data Represent
In the early years researchers greeted the internet and digital data with almost wide-eyed wonder and excitement.
To illuminate and motivate: a fuzzy-trace model of the spread of information online
In this paper, we present, and test, a novel mathematical formulation of how information spreads online.
Long-standing literature in political science makes clear that political elites can shape the factual beliefs and policy attitudes of the mass public, especially co-partisans.
Challenges and frontiers in abusive content detection
Developing robust systems to detect abuse is a crucial part of online content moderation and plays a fundamental role in creating an open, safe and accessible Internet. It is of growing interest to...
How we do things with words: Analyzing text as social and cultural data
In this article we describe our experiences with computational text analysis. We hope to achieve three primary goals.
The Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Humans and Human Rights
What are the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights in the next three decades?
You Break It, You Buy It: The Naiveté of Social Engineering in Tech – And How to Fix It
Facebook’s mission statement promises to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together”.
The (Mis)Informed Citizen: Indicators for Examining the Quality of Online News
Current discourses about the spread of misinformation tend to juxtapose misinformation with "quality" news.
Malicious Actors on Twitter: A Guide for Public Health Researchers
Social bots and other malicious actors have a significant presence on Twitter.
The Advisory Council for Immunisation Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends annual influenza vaccination for all healthy adults.