2022-09-03
What does this mean in light of YouTube's announcements in advance of the midterms? While our findings are only observational, they suggest that moving early is crucial. Surfacing reliable news is an important first step! However! 4/ https://blog.youtube/...
TechCrunch
Google and YouTube outline plans to limit the spread of election misinformation in the 2022 US midterms, like highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
YouTube announced yesterday their plans for curbing election fraud misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms which happens to coincide with the publication of a new @CSMaP_NYU article on election fraud in the 2020 elections with @JamesBisbee @angelaight and CSMaP co-directors 1/ https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Google and YouTube outline plans to limit the spread of election misinformation in the 2022 US midterms, like highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
One finding in the paper that we don't highlight in the thread: election fraud-related content shared from YouTube on other platforms spiked after the election, and went down only after YouTube began moderating the content after the safe harbor deadline 3/ https://www.nytimes.com/...
TechCrunch
Google and YouTube outline plans to limit the spread of election misinformation in the 2022 US midterms, like highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
If individuals most skeptical were most likely to be recommended election fraud videos, election fraud content that doesn't fall within the narrow confines of YouTube's content policy may still be recommended to the users most likely to believe it 5/ https://support.google.com/...
TechCrunch
Google and YouTube outline plans to limit the spread of election misinformation in the 2022 US midterms, like highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
Taken together, our findings suggest that a better policy would be to remove election misinformation *before* the election results are finalized. This is not a wild suggestion! Platforms including Meta and Twitter already ban this type of content ahead of the election! 6/
TechCrunch
Google and YouTube outline plans to limit the spread of election misinformation in the 2022 US midterms, like highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
YouTube is a large part of the online media space, so actions taken on YouTube to reduce the volume of misinformation can have positive spillover effects on all platforms that link to or embed YouTube videos (read: all social platforms) (fin.)
TechCrunch
Google and YouTube outline plans to limit the spread of election misinformation in the 2022 US midterms, like highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
2021-10-28
See new analysis by me and @CSMaP_NYU co-directors on which members of Congress get ratioed the most on Twitter! (and why that might lead to the disproportionate amplification of conservatives in the algorithmic timeline per the Twitter report last week) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
NYU research suggests Twitter's algorithms promote conservative politicians because they are more likely to be “ratioed”, which Twitter may count as engagement
Our research suggests conservative politicians are ‘ratioed’ more often. That may explain why they're in your timeline.
2021-09-12
Facebook: Researchers should use data Facebook provides. Research using independently collected data is inaccurate and misleading about the platform. Also Facebook: https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Internal emails: the data Facebook provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed
More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted …
2021-09-11
Facebook: Researchers should use data Facebook provides. Research using independently collected data is inaccurate and misleading about the platform. Also Facebook: https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Internal emails: the data Facebook provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed
More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted …