Due to the increasing amount of information shared online every day, the need for sound
and reliable ways of distinguishing between trustworthy and non-trustworthy information is …

Adverse phenomena such as the search engine manipulation effect (SEME), where web
search users change their attitude on a topic following whatever most highly-ranked search …

Growing concern about the democratic impact of automatically curated news platforms urges
us to reconsider how such platforms should be designed. We propose a theoretical …

One way to help users navigate debated topics online is to apply stance detection in web
search. Automatically identifying whether search results are against, neutral, or in favor …

News media play an important role in democratic societies. Central to fulfilling this role is the
premise that users should be exposed to diverse news. However, news recommender …

Disagreements are common in online discussions. Disagreement may foster collaboration
and improve the quality of a discussion under some conditions. Although there exist …

Increasingly taking place in online spaces, modern political conversations are typically
perceived to be unproductively affirming---siloed in so called" echo chambers" of exclusively …

When interacting with information retrieval (IR) systems, users, affected by confirmation
biases, tend to select search results that confirm their existing beliefs on socially significant …

Featured snippets that attempt to satisfy users' information needs directly on top of the first
search engine results page (SERP) have been shown to strongly impact users' post-search …

Proponents of 'democratic news recommender design'argue that algorithmic news
diversification may facilitate democratic participation. However, while various news …