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Source: How generative AI chatbots responded to questions and fact-checks about the 2024 UK general election | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of society, from education and work to health care and finance. Its widespread adoption also has started to impact global politics, from elections […]
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Posed questions about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, top AI models generated misleading information 30 percent of the time. Earlier this month, Vice President Kamala Harris […]
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Studies addressing the normative questions of whether social media use positively or negatively affects citizens’ levels of democratic engagement and satisfaction with democracy have produced mixed findings. This study tests […]
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This article examines how the use of social media for news affects citizens’ knowledge about politics and current affairs. We employ a two-dimensional perspective on political knowledge and investigate how […]
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Many critics raise concerns about the prevalence of ‘echo chambers’ on social media and their potential role in increasing political polarization. However, the lack of available data and the challenges […]
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We studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not […]
