Transparency in Digital Political Advertisements during the 2019 European Parliament Elections
The phenomenon of digital political campaigning has been at the center of global public attention – at...
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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.
Vaccine acceptance is a crucial public health issue, which has been exacerbated by the use of social media to spread content opposing vaccination.
Machines Learn Appearance Bias in Face Recognition
Researchers have raised concerns about the use of face recognition for, inter alia, police surveillance and job candidate screening (Deborah Raji et al., 2020). For example, HireVue’s automated...
A computational science approach to understanding human conflict
While social science approaches focus on individual cases, the recent proliferation of empirical data and complex systems thinking has opened up a computational approach based on identifying common...
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.