While technology experts sound the alarm on the pace of artificial-intelligence development, philanthropists—including long-established foundations and tech billionaires—have been responding...
There is “no evidence” that the growth in using Facebook led to “widespread psychological harm”, the largest independent scientific study...
The largest independent scientific study ever conducted, investigating the spread of Facebook across the globe found no evidence that the...
While augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are envisioned as the next iteration of the internet immersing us in...
The COVID-19 pandemic created a global increase in domestic violence against women. Now, an MIT-led experiment designed with that fact...
A first-of-its-kind study examined 2.2 million news stories shared on Facebook and found that publishers create two very different news...
Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods....
Is social media designed to reward people for acting badly? The answer is clearly yes, given that the reward structure...
The Social Media Archive at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research has released data focusing on the impact...
Do social media echo chambers deepen political polarization, or simply reflect existing social divisions? A landmark research project that investigated...
When people who publicly reject COVID-19 vaccines later die from the disease, observers have complex reactions to their fates, a...
Political campaign ads and donor solicitations have long been deceptive. In 2004, for example, U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, a...