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Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are...
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addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four …; (iii) increased subjective well-being; and (iv) caused a large persistent reduction in post-experiment Facebook use …. Deactivation reduced post-experiment valuations of Facebook, suggesting that traditional metrics may overstate consumer surplus …
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measure trends in the diffusion of content from 569 fake news websites and 9,540 fake news stories on Facebook and Twitter … between January 2015 and July 2018. User interactions with false content rose steadily on both Facebook and Twitter through … rise on Twitter, with the ratio of Facebook engagements to Twitter shares decreasing by 60 percent. In comparison …
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addiction, depression, and political polarization. We present a randomized evaluation of the welfare effects of Facebook …, focusing on US users in the run-up to the 2018 midterm election. We measured the willingness-to-accept of 2,743 Facebook users … to deactivate their Facebook accounts for four weeks, then randomly assigned a subset to actually do so in a way that we …
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Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are...
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measure trends in the diffusion of content from 569 fake news websites and 9,540 fake news stories on Facebook and Twitter … between January 2015 and July 2018. User interactions with false content rose steadily on both Facebook and Twitter through … rise on Twitter, with the ratio of Facebook engagements to Twitter shares decreasing by 60 percent. In comparison …
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addiction, depression, and political polarization. In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four …; (iii) increased subjective well-being; and (iv) caused a large persistent reduction in post-experiment Facebook use …. Deactivation reduced post-experiment valuations of Facebook, suggesting that traditional metrics may overstate consumer surplus …
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