Thanks to algorithms that learn about social media users' content preferences, Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds, suggested YouTube videos, and other news streams can look startlingly different from one person's online account ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2021
55
93
New research from Aston University has found boilerplate language used by managers is preventing their non-professional investors from making sound decisions.
Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2021
0
36
Nearly all Americans agree that the rampant spread of misinformation is a problem.
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2021
0
25
There is broad bipartisan support among self-identified liberals and conservatives that social media companies should add warning labels to posts that contain misleading information, or that could lead to the spread of misinformation, ...
Political science
Sep 17, 2021
0
27
Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn such language gets rewarded with an increased number of "likes" and "shares," a new Yale University study shows.
Social Sciences
Aug 13, 2021
2
774
People in both the United States and China who think others are being duped by online misinformation about COVID-19 are also more likely to support corporate and political efforts to address that misinformation, according ...
Social Sciences
Jun 3, 2021
4
5
We have witnessed it recently: Social media's response to bad behavior has been to ban offenders from platforms for a short time, and in some cases permanently, but young people from a University of Michigan study said they ...
Other
Apr 28, 2021
1
7
European listed companies in the energy and mining sector provide, to say the least, sparse information on future environmental costs in their annual reports. Researchers believe that stricter guidelines are required as the ...
Mathematics
Mar 25, 2021
0
7
Americans take great pride in the tradition of free speech. Enshrined in the Constitution, the tradition is quite different than those of Europe and other parts of the world, which not only provide different histories but ...
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2021
0
5
The algorithms that social media platforms use to recommend who we should "follow" are designed to steer us to people who likely share the same ideas and interests.
Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2020
0
31
