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Search Engines have greatly influenced the way we experience the web. Since the early days of the web, users have been relying on them to get informed and make decisions. […]
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Astroturfing is the practice of an organization communicating a message using fake “grass-roots” sources. Because these messages attempt to mimic ordinary individuals, distinguishing them from real grass-roots messages is a […]
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Combating fake news needs a variety of defense methods. Although rumor detection and various linguistic analysis techniques are common methods to detect false content in social media, there are other […]
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Social bots mimic and potentially manipulate humans and their behaviours in social networks. The public sphere might be especially vulnerable to their impacts, which is why we first discuss their […]
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Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been particularly active on public policy issues, political crises, and elections. We collected data on […]
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Social media platforms have been the subject of controversy and scrutiny due to the spread of hateful content. To address this problem, the platforms implement content moderation using a mix […]
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Big data and data science transform organizational decision-making. We increasingly defer decisions to algorithms because machines have earned a reputation of outperforming us. As algorithms become embedded within organizations, they […]
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In this article, we introduce a prototype of an innovative technology for proving the origins of captured digital media. In an era of fake news, when someone shows us a […]
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We develop a new conceptualization of political advertising effects by looking at the effect of the marginal advertising dollar during the heat of presidential campaigns. We argue that in contrast […]
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“Algorithms spread bias at gigabit speeds. What does this mean for society? And who can fix it?”
