1.
Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature
Number of pages: 95
Posted: 21 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU), Princeton University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), University of Bologna - Faculty of Political Science, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, StudentsStanford, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, Students, New York University (NYU), Department of Politics, Students and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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18,348
2.
Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 07 Dec 2017
Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
NUS Business School and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
Downloads
14,997
3.
Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information
Stanford History Education Group Working Paper No. 2017-A1
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 09 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
Stanford University Graduate School of Education and Stanford Graduate School of Education
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14,867
4.
From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 28 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 24 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
NUS Business School and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
Downloads
8,228
5.
New Social Media and Impact of Fake News on Society
ICSSM Proceedings, July 2018, Chaing Mai, Thailand, pp. 77-96
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 05 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Assumption University
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7,200
6.
Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2020-6
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 08 Oct 2020
Working Paper Series
Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Suffolk UniversityHarvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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5,353
7.
The Political Economy of Populism
Number of pages: 121
Posted: 19 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 21 Nov 2020
Working Paper Series
Sciences Po and London Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Political Economy of Populism
Number of pages: 121
Posted: 19 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 21 Nov 2020
Downloads
5,016
The Political Economy of Populism
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14433
Number of pages: 128
Posted: 03 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 02 Nov 2020
Downloads
2
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5,016
8.
The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings
Pennycook, G., Bear, A., Collins, E., & Rand, D. G. The implied truth effect: Attaching warnings to a subset of fake news headlines increases perceived accuracy of headlines without warnings. Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 14 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Regina, Yale University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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4,904
9.
Media as the Fourth Estate of Democracy
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 25 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
Christ University School of LawKaranjawala & Co and Christ University School of Law
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4,545
10.
Donald Trump and the 'Oxygen of Publicity': Branding, Social Media, and Mass Media in the 2016 Presidential Primary Elections
Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2016
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 27 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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4,428
11.
Impact of COVID-19 on the Media System. Communicative and Democratic Consequences of News Consumption during the Outbreak
Casero-Ripollés, Andreu (2020). “Impact of Covid-19 on the media system. Communicative and democratic consequences of news consumption during the outbreak”. El profesional de la información, v. 29, n. 2, e290223. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2020.mar.23
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 07 May 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Jaume I University
Downloads
4,048
12.
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics. DOI/10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-050239
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 22 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Paris School of Economics (PSE), Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Barcelona and New Economic SchoolInstitute of Political Economy and Governance
There are 3 versions of this paper
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics. DOI/10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-050239
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 22 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
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3,384
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13996
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
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3
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 12, pp. 415-438, 2020
Posted: 14 Aug 2020
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3,384
13.
Totalitarianism Through Newspeak and Doublethink: An Evaluation Through George Orwell's 1984
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 25 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent
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3,292
14.
The Digital Transformation of News Media and the Rise of Disinformation and Fake News
Digital Economy Working Paper 2018-02, Joint Research Centre Technical Reports
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 10 May 2018
Last Revised: 03 Jun 2018
Working Paper Series
Joint Research Centre, University of Zurich - Department of Business Administration, Joint Research Center of the European Commission and University of the Bundeswehr Munich
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3,131
15.
Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing
Advances in Political Psychology, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 561
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 02 Aug 2016
Last Revised: 07 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Tangled Bank Studios and University of Pennsylvania
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3,125
16.
Government Control of the Media
Journal of Public Economics, vol. 118, pp. 163-171, October 2014.
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 15 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 06 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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3,076
17.
Search and Politics: The Uses and Impacts of Search in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United States
Quello Center Working Paper No. 5-1-17
Number of pages: 204
Posted: 01 May 2017
Last Revised: 18 May 2017
Working Paper Series
GCSCC Computer Science University of Oxford, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte - College of Arts & Sciences, University of Ottawa and University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute
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2,956
18.
Lazy, Not Biased: Susceptibility to Partisan Fake News Is Better Explained by Lack of Reasoning Than by Motivated Reasoning
Pennycook, G. & Rand, D. G. (2018). Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.011
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 20 Jan 2020
Last Revised: 20 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Regina and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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2,940
19.
Information Disorder in Asia and the Pacific: Overview of Misinformation Ecosystem in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 14 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 04 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Independent, The University of Hong Kong - Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of the Philippines, Diliman - Department of Journalism, University of the Philippines, Diliman - Department of Journalism, National University of Singapore (NUS), The University of Hong Kong - Journalism and Media Studies Centre, National Taiwan University, Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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2,808
20.
Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama's 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric
Theory and Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 4(6), 1178-1187.
doi:10.4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 26 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Tabriz Branch and Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Tabriz Branch
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2,693
21.
A Theory of Informational Autocracy
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 26 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Sciences Po and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science
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2,680
22.
Facebook is... Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation
APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
University of New Mexico - Department of Political Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
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2,546
23.
Artificial Intelligence: Risks to Privacy and Democracy
21 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 106 (2019), Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-37
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 13 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Loyola Law School Los Angeles - Alumni
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2,500
24.
Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics
Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 21 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Paris School of Economics (PSE), Sciences Po, Sciences Po and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics
Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 21 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
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2,455
Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12220
Number of pages: 87
Posted: 15 Aug 2017
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2019
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1
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2,455
25.
Social Media, News Media and the Stock Market
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 02 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 29 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Maastricht University - Department of Finance, Imperial College London and Imperial College London
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2,328
26.
3G Internet and Confidence in Government
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 148
Posted: 16 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 09 Nov 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Sciences Po, Princeton University and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
There are 2 versions of this paper
3G Internet and Confidence in Government
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 148
Posted: 16 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 09 Nov 2020
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2,305
3g Internet and Confidence in Government
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14022
Number of pages: 151
Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 16 Aug 2020
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1
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2,305
27.
Internet Meme and Political Discourse: A Study on the Impact of Internet Meme as a Tool in Communicating Political Satire
Journal of Content, Community & Communication Amity School of Communication, Vol. 6 Year 3, June - 2017
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 31 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
Amity University Mumbai
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2,287
28.
Capitol Offense: Is Donald Trump Guilty of Inciting a Riot at the Capitol?
Capitol Offense: Is Donald Trump Guilty of Inciting a Riot at the Capitol?, ___ J.L. & PUB. POL’Y ___ (forthcoming 2021).
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 27 Jan 2021
Last Revised: 19 May 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Angelo State University - Business Law
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2,106
29.
Fighting Misinformation on Social Media Using Crowdsourced Judgments of News Source Quality
Pennycook, G., & Rand. D. G. (2019). Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806781116
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 17 Feb 2018
Last Revised: 31 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Regina and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads
2,081
30.
The Impact of Political Ideology on Concern and Behavior During COVID-19
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 13 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans, University of New Orleans and University of New Orleans
Downloads
2,055
31.
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-19, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 55.
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 13 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-19, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 55.
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 13 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
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2,027
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline
NBER Working Paper No. w15916
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Downloads
71
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2,027
32.
Political Advertising in the 21st Century: The Rise of the YouTube Ad
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 19 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
Washington State University, Wesleyan University - Government and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,991
33.
Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Number of pages: 115
Posted: 18 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2021
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics
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1,933
34.
Online Political Participation: Slacktivism or Efficiency Increased Activism? Evidence from the Brazilian Ficha Limpa Campaign
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 23 Nov 2012
Working Paper Series
German Development Insitute and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,923
35.
Framing in Social Media: How the US Congress Uses Twitter Hashtags to Frame Political Issues
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 29 Aug 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan, Illinois Institute of Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology - Department of Humanities
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1,859
36.
More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 19 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing and Indiana University
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1,853
37.
Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: Trump's Rise, Sanders' Emergence, Clinton's Struggle
HKS Working Paper No. 16-023
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 20 Jun 2016
Last Revised: 14 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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1,698
38.
Belief in Fake News Is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking
Bronstein, M., Pennycook, G. Bear, A., Rand, D. G., & Cannon, T. (2018). Belief in Fake News is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.09.005
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 17 May 2018
Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, University of Regina, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yale University
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1,697
39.
How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?
NYU Stern School of Business, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-05
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
New York University School of Law, Wake Forest University - Schools of Business and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?
NYU Stern School of Business, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-05
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2020
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1,635
How Do Private Digital Currencies Affect Government Policy?
NBER Working Paper No. w26219
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 09 Sep 2019
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Downloads
9
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1,635
40.
Deplatforming the Far-right: An Analysis of YouTube and BitChute
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 25 Jun 2021
Working Paper Series
National Taiwan University - Graduate Institute of Journalism and Suffolk UniversityHarvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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1,544
41.
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 11 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
Princeton University, NUS Business School and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 11 Dec 2020
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1,542
The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
NBER Working Paper No. w28849
Number of pages: 87
Posted: 31 May 2021
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2022
Downloads
4
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1,542
42.
Youth and Digital Citizenship+ (Plus): Understanding Skills for a Digital World
Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2020-2
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 14 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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1,529
43.
Disinformation and Social Bot Operations in the Run Up to the 2017 French Presidential Election
First Monday 22(8) - August 7, 2017
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 01 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 13 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
Downloads
1,456
44.
Epistemic Spillovers: Learning Others’ Political Views Reduces the Ability to Assess and Use Their Expertise in Nonpolitical Domains
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-22
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 13 Apr 2018
Last Revised: 06 Jun 2018
Working Paper Series
University College London - Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, University College London, Harvard Law School and University College London - Affective Brain Lab, Department of Experimental Psychology
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1,456
45.
Is the Chinese Anti-Corruption Campaign Authentic? Evidence from Corporate Investigations
29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting 2018, Finance Down Under 2019 Building on the Best from the Cellars of Finance, Paris December 2018 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI, PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 20 May 2016
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance, Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Downloads
1,449
46.
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Number of pages: 164
Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford - Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford - Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Oxford - Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and University of Oxford - Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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1,436
47.
Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction
Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 01 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong, Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
Downloads
1,408
48.
Anticipating and Addressing the Ethical Implications of Deepfakes in the Context of Elections
New Media & Society
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 01 Nov 2019
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Northwestern University - School of Communication and University of Virginia - School of Engineering & Applied Science
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1,404
49.
Governance of the Facebook Privacy Crisis
20 Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law & Policy (2020)
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 04 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
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1,397
50.
Free Speech Unmoored in Copyright’s Safe Harbor: Chilling Effects of the DMCA on the First Amendment
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 24, p. 171, 2010, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2010-3
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 30 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 13 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads
1,395
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