Research linking social media use and adolescent mental health has produced mixed and
inconsistent findings and little translational evidence, despite pressure to deliver concrete …

No social media user sees the same feed. These platforms are personalized to the
individual with the aid of algorithms that filter and prioritize content based on users' …

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 …

Concerns over the harmful effects of social media have directed public attention to media
literacy as a potential remedy. Current conceptions of media literacy are frequently based on …

There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles
on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues …

Not long ago, the rise of social media inspired great optimism about its potential for flattening
access to economic and political opportunity, enabling collective action, and facilitating new …

Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants
pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral …

Hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine remains high among the US population. Now that
the vaccine is available to priority populations, it is critical to convince those that are hesitant …

Amid growing concerns about misinformation on social media, scholars, educators, and
commentators see news literacy as a means to improve critical media consumption. We use …

In this study, we present a novel scale for measuring social media information literacy (SMIL)
that encompasses six sub-dimensions: navigation, curation, appraisal, comprehension …