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small to medium size coverage bias against MPs from the center-left parties in Germany and in France. A plausible …
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We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...
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This study investigates the effects of variation in "congeniality" of news on Facebook user engagement (likes, shares …, and comments). We compile an original data set of Facebook posts by 84 German news outlets on politicians that were …
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In this study, we propose a novel approach to detect supply-side media bias, independent of external factors like ownership or editors' ideological leanings. Analyzing over 100,000 articles from The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), complemented by data from 22 million...
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband...
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This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic. Focusing on federal and state election outcomes in the post-reunification decade (i.e., a time at which TV...
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used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We quantify the extent to which Facebook can track web behavior outside … of their own platform. The network of engagement buttons, placed on third-party websites, lets Facebook follow users as … they browse the web. Tracking users outside its core platform enables Facebook to build shadow profiles. For a …
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We study the effects of taxation on the international online advertising market, using data on Facebook ad prices …, Facebook users product preferences and international trade. Our data encompass a de facto increase in the platform's corporate …
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-environmental behavior. We implemented a set of randomized campaigns using Facebook ads in the Massachusetts cities of Cambridge and …
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within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …
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