News & Commentary

A look at our top articles, events, and more from the past year.

A look at our top articles, events, and more from the past year.

Unprecedented research in the context of the 2020 presidential election reveals algorithms are extremely influential in people’s on-platform experiences and there is significant ideological segregation in political news exposure but, among consenting study participants, changes to critical aspects of the algorithms that determine what they saw did not sway political attitudes.

A look at our top articles, events, and more from the past year.

New study shows how site’s algorithms perpetuate existing misperceptions.

The paper’s findings reveal how misinformation spreads across networks and point to need to improve content-moderation techniques.