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Credits: Image: Allegra Boverman Next image The specter of “fake news” looms over many facets of modern society. Waves of online misinformation have rocked societal events from the Covid-19 pandemic to U.S. elections. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Devavrat Shah, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society. Shah researches the recommendation algorithms that generate social media newsfeeds. He has proposed a that could limit the spread of misinformation b...

Sexism homophobia and political extremism score hits on you tube even though the site has plenty of high quality content it's the extreme videos that attract audiences and to big profits for the channel owners and for the site itself why does it make money on you tube and what does that mean for the user i would topic today on shift. you tube recommendation algorithms favor polarizing content and that tends to recognize uses conservatives for instance increasing the steer toward right wing extremist channels as a brazilian study has shown 79000000 comments were analyzed for it it seems about t...