members of Congress share more links to low-quality news sites than the public on Facebook; Republican members share considerably more than Democrats & this gap is increasing. only Republican members get increased engagement when sharing low-quality sites www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partisan Differences in the Sharing of Low-Quality News Sources by U.S Political Elites

How often do political elites in the U.S. share low-quality news sources? Are there differences between the parties? While past work has investigated individuals sharing low-quality news sources, t...

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Who Killed Trust? And What Can We Do About It? - In Reality podcast

Eric Schurenberg discusses Trust in Media with Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas, Austin

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Local news is on the decline 📰 📉 But what could save it? New field experiment with news sites by @taliastroud.bsky.social@emilyvanduyn.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad018

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New at Nature: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-w Our key findings: -Median Facebook user gets 50.4% of content from like-minded sources -But reducing exposure by 1/3 for 3 months had no measurable effect on attitudes

Fun to talk with Mike Pesca on The Gist about our new study of like-minded sources on Facebook (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06297-whttps://tinyurl.com/trump-caseshttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7paD9951E3iFhQUBgSNTFd

The Great Facebook De-Siloing Study

Listen to this episode from The Gist on Spotify. The 2016 election posed questions we still haven't fully answered about our elections, but today's guest, Dartmouth professor and elections researcher ...

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Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social med...

The project included 17 academic researchers from 12 universities who were granted deep access by Facebook to aggregated data.

Four landmark studies from a collaboration between Meta and researchers. A summary of the results: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/meta-facebook-political-polarization-studies/674841/

So Maybe Facebook Didn’t Ruin Politics

Large-scale experiments on social media, run behind the scenes during the 2020 election, suggest there is no simple fix for American democracy.