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Credits: Image: Istockphoto images edited by MIT News Previous image Next image It is no secret that U.S. politics is polarized. An experiment conducted by MIT researchers now shows just how deeply political partisanship directly influences people’s behavior within online social networks. Deploying Twitter bots to help examine the online behavior of real people, the researchers found that the likelihood that individuals will follow other accounts on Twitter triples when there appears to be a common partisan bond involved. “When partisanship is matched, pe...

MIT Sloan study finds strong evidence of political bias in formation of social media ties Democrats and Republicans equally favor interactions with co-partisans online News provided by Share this article Share this article CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- After the recent presidential election, political divisiveness is a more significant issue than ever in the U.S. But how much does political party affiliation actually impact social relationships? A recent experiment conducted on Twitter by MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. David Rand and MIT Sloan Research Affiliate Mohse...

Researchers recently conducted a study to find a way to curtail fake news They found that fact-checking labels attached to headlines may help  The fight against the spread of false news – or fake news, as it is widely known – has been a seemingly endless battle amid the coronavirus pandemic. The government has been warning the public since the first wave of Covid-19 infections about the dangers of spreading fake news, and even regarded it as a punishable offence.  Now, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University have found that a possible way ...

If social networks and other platforms are to get a handle on disinformation, it’s not enough to know what it is — you have to know how people react to it. Researchers at MIT and Cornell have some surprising but subtle findings that may affect how Twitter and Facebook should go about treating this problematic […]

Credits: Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT, with images courtesy of Twitter and Facebook Previous image Next image The battle to stop false news and online misinformation is not going to end any time soon, but a new finding from MIT scholars may help ease the problem. In an experiment, the researchers discovered that fact-checking labels, when attached to online news headlines, actually work better after people read false headlines, compared to when they precede the headline or accompany it. “We found that whether a false claim was corrected before people read...