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major German media outlets by analyzing tweets of German Members of Parliament (MPs) on Twitter. For each news outlet under … MPs' relative number of Twitter referrals to that outlet. We find that three outlets are positioned on the left, and two …
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This paper quantifies the impact of online vaccine skepticism on pediatric vaccine uptake and health outcomes. We propose a novel methodology that combines Natural Language Processing and an instrumental variable strategy that leverages the intransitivity of the social network's connections. By...
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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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This paper investigates the factors that contributed to the proliferation of online COVID skepticism on Twitter across …-vax sentiment, represented by old "truthers" on Twitter, amplifies online COVID skepticism in local communities. Additionally …
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. Analyzing 98,000 scientists on Twitter from 2016 to 2022 reveals significant divergence in expressed political opinions. An …
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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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We conduct a randomized survey experiment to compare the short- and longer-term effects of fact checking to a brief media literacy intervention. We show that the impact of fact checking is limited to the corrected fake news, whereas media literacy helps to distinguish between false and correct...
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We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social … more connected, likely due to increased migration from poorer to richer regions. We find more socially connected region …
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