Additional Resources
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- Algorithms & Quality News – how can we ensure that algorithms identify and promote fact-based, independent journalism?
- 2020 Election Studies Reveal Power of Facebook, Instagram Algorithms – research, published in Science and Nature, part of the most comprehensive scholarly project to date examining role of social media in American democracy.
- The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from The United States – e-study on how social media affects election outcomes in the United States.
- How Facebook's newsfeed algorithm shapes childhood vaccine hesitancy – to decrease the effectiveness of vaccine dis(mis)information, it is critical to educate the public about how social media newsfeed algorithms make content-display decisions.
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