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How deceptive online networks reached millions in the US 2020 elections
Abstract Deceptive online networks are coordinated efforts that use identity deception to pursue strategic political or financial goals. During the US 2020 elections, these networks reached at least 37 million Facebook and 3 million Instagram users, representing 15% and 2% of the platforms’ active US adult users, respectively. Only 3 networks out of 49—1 network with explicitly political aims and 2 that appeared to use politics as a lure for profit—were responsible for over 70% of users reached.
The effects of political advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US election - Nature Human Behaviour
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Abstract We study the effects of social media political advertising by randomizing subsets of 36,906 Facebook users and 25,925 Instagram users to have political ads removed from their news feeds for 6 weeks before the 2020 US presidential election. We show that most presidential ads were targeted towards parties’ own supporters and that fundraising ads were the most common.
By Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Ro’ee Levy, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Natasha Dumas, Winter Mason, Devra Moehler, Pablo Barberá, Taylor Brown, Juan Cisneros Verified, Drew Dimmery, Deen Freelon, Sandra González-Bailón, Andrew Guess, David Lazer, Neil Malhotra, Sameer Nair-Desai, Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer Pan, Jaime E. Settle, Emily Thorson, Rebekah Tromble, Carlos Rivera, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Magdalena E. Wojcieszak, Shiqi Yang, Annie Franco, Natalie Jomini Stroud, Joshua Tucker, Saam Zahedian, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge
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The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-8656 gentzkow@stanford.edu, Winter Mason, +28 , Arjun Wilkins, Pablo Barberá, Taylor Brown, Juan Carlos Cisneros, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Drew Dimmery, Deen Freelon, Sandra González-Bailón https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8372-798X, Andrew M.
An Experimental Study of Team Size and Performance on a Complex Task
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Andrew Mao , Winter Mason, Siddharth Suri, Duncan J. Watts Andrew Mao, Winter Mason, Siddharth Suri, Duncan J. Watts Published: April 15, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153048 Figures Abstract The relationship between team size and productivity is a question of broad relevance across economics, psychology, and management science.
Politics and Culture on Facebook in the 2014 Midterm Elections
With the 2014 midterm elections approaching, we decided to take a look at the cultural similarities and differences between people who support Democrats and people who support Republicans. To do this, we looked at everyone who liked the campaign page of any Democrat or Republican running for governor, U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives.
What are we most thankful for?
Over the past few months, many people have been challenging one another to share on Facebook the things for which they are most grateful. So, for example, one friend might challenge another to “write 3 things you are thankful for over the next 5 days.” In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we thought we would see what people are most thankful for. The following analysis was conducted on anonymized, aggregate data by English speakers in the United States.
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