Do social media undermine social cohesion? A critical review

S González‐Bailón, Y Lelkes - Social Issues and Policy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate the empirical evidence interrogating the question of whether social media
erodes social cohesion. We look at how networks, information exchange, and norms operate …

Algorithm-mediated social learning in online social networks

WJ Brady, JC Jackson, B Lindström… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Human social learning is increasingly occurring on online social platforms, such as Twitter,
Facebook, and TikTok. On these platforms, algorithms exploit existing social-learning biases …

Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

S González-Bailón, D Lazer, P Barberá, M Zhang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Does Facebook enable ideological segregation in political news consumption? We
analyzed exposure to news during the US 2020 election using aggregated data for 208 …

How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

AM Guess, N Malhotra, J Pan, P Barberá, H Allcott… - Science, 2023 - science.org
We investigated the effects of Facebook's and Instagram's feed algorithms during the 2020
US election. We assigned a sample of consenting users to reverse-chronologically-ordered …

Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search

RE Robertson, J Green, DJ Ruck, K Ognyanova… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
If popular online platforms systematically expose their users to partisan and unreliable news,
they could potentially contribute to societal issues such as rising political polarization,. This …

[BOG][B] Fairness and machine learning: Limitations and opportunities

S Barocas, M Hardt, A Narayanan - 2023 - books.google.com
An introduction to the intellectual foundations and practical utility of the recent work on
fairness and machine learning. Fairness and Machine Learning introduces advanced …

Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility

WJ Brady, KL McLoughlin, MP Torres, KF Luo… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is
important to understand the dynamics of emotion perception online. Here, we propose that …

Handling bias in toxic speech detection: A survey

T Garg, S Masud, T Suresh, T Chakraborty - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Detecting online toxicity has always been a challenge due to its inherent subjectivity. Factors
such as the context, geography, socio-political climate, and background of the producers …

Down the rabbit hole: Detecting online extremism, radicalisation, and politicised hate speech

J Govers, P Feldman, A Dant, P Patros - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social media is a modern person's digital voice to project and engage with new ideas and
mobilise communities—a power shared with extremists. Given the societal risks of unvetted …

Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation

JB Bak-Coleman, I Kennedy, M Wack, A Beers… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Misinformation online poses a range of threats, from subverting democratic processes to
undermining public health measures. Proposed solutions range from encouraging more …