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Is the California Legislature Addicted to Performative Election-Year Stunts That Threaten the Internet? (Comments on AB2408)

August 5, 2022

Santa Clara internet law scholar Eric Goldman writes about California AB2408, proposed legislation intended to address social media platforms that are addictive to children.

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Eric GoldmanTAP Scholar

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State Policies and Online Sympathy for Religious Extremism

May 8, 2020

Political scientist Elizabeth Dekeyser, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), uses a machine-learning tool to analyze Twitter responses to the 2015 Paris killings, showing that state policies can sway sympathy for terror attacks.

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TAP Guest Blogger

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Did Fake News Help Trump Win?

February 16, 2018

Stanford economist Matthew Gentzkow looks at the role of social media and fake news in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Matthew GentzkowTAP Scholar

Recent Election Security Academic Article Summaries

ACADEMIC ARTICLE SUMMARY

Auditing Google's Search Headlines as a Potential Gateway to Misleading Content: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Election

2022

An audit of Google search results shows that videos promoted more election-related misinformation than news stories or ads. Users’ choice of search terms affected the quality of information displayed.

Written By:

Kate StarbirdTAP Scholar

M. Ryan CaloTAP Scholar

Himanshu Zade

Jason Young

Jevin West

Morgan Wack

Yuanrui Zhang

ACADEMIC ARTICLE SUMMARY

Making Up Political People: How Social Media Create the Ideals, Definitions, and Probabilities of Political Speech

2020

Facebook’s fact checking service assumes that the public is rational and seeks the truth, but people are more influenced by emotion. Some are concerned that false news is not banned, but merely ranked lower.

Written By:

Mike AnannyTAP Scholar

ACADEMIC ARTICLE SUMMARY

Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

2017

Fake news stories, often produced to earn advertising revenue, are growing in importance. Consumers are more likely to believe articles that confirm their prior beliefs.

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Matthew GentzkowTAP Scholar

Hunt Allcott

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Election Security

Recent Election Security Blog Posts

Is the California Legislature Addicted to Performative Election-Year Stunts That Threaten the Internet? (Comments on AB2408)

State Policies and Online Sympathy for Religious Extremism

Did Fake News Help Trump Win?

Recent Election Security Academic Article Summaries

Auditing Google's Search Headlines as a Potential Gateway to Misleading Content: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Election

Making Up Political People: How Social Media Create the Ideals, Definitions, and Probabilities of Political Speech

Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election