Alex Kasprak and Jordan Liles
October 1, 2019
A once pro-Trump Facebook page, World USA, built a following of nearly 1 million users between October 2016 and late September 2019 by sharing generically patriotic, Norman Rockwellian remembrances of a bygone America…
Davey Alba
September 29, 2019
In April 2018, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, told Congress about an ambitious plan to share huge amounts of posts, links and other user data with researchers around the world so that they could study and flag disinformation on the site…
Jeffrey Mervis
September 24, 2019
Gary King benefited from perfect timing in selling Facebook on the idea of sharing a treasure trove of its data with academics. But now, the clock is working against efforts by King and others to keep the innovative project…
Andrew Hamilton
July 29, 2019
As we enter our nation’s next presidential election cycle, we will be compelled once again to reexamine the new, disturbing terms of engagement regarding the dissemination of information and misinformation…
July 24, 2019
In April this year a special collection examining social media and politics was published in SAGE Open. Guest edited by Joshua A. Tucker and Pablo Barberá, the articles grew out of a series of conferences held by NYU’s Social Media and Political Participation lab (SMaPP) and the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study (GIAS) known as SMaPP-Global…
Alex Kasprak
May 15, 2019
A small group of radical evangelical Christians is repurposing Facebook pages and PACs to build a coordinated, pro-Trump network that spreads hate and conspiracy theories…
Stephen Loiaconi
April 23, 2019
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, dismissed Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election as “a couple of Facebook ads” Tuesday, but experts say special counsel Robert Mueller uncovered…
Lisa Brody
April 23, 2019
Today, we live in an era where we are bombarded by constant communication, with 24-hour cable news channels, emails flooding us with advice and information, and social media coming at us from every side, providing us with news, images and details, factual and some that are less-than, at all times of the day and night…
Tom Jacobs
March 6, 2019
There is a justifiable fear that the splintering of news sources, first by cable television networks and then by the Internet, is leading many people to live in ideological bubbles, with little access to arguments from opposing political ideologies. While such self-siloing is clearly a problem, a new study suggests the situation isn’t as dire as we might think…
February 9, 2019
For some, Facebook is becoming less relevant; the company has been called out for funneling the political echochamber with false profiles, selling user data, and younger users are opting for other networks. For others, Facebook has become a lifeline as a primary source of news and social interactions…
