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...
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t...
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard...
Young citizens across the globe vote at relatively low rates, which contributes to political parties’ de-prioritizing issues that matter to...
Imagine moving from state to state while growing up in the U.S., transferring between high schools, and eventually attending college...
