Trick or tweet? Or both?

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3082, 2016, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Baraniuk discusses how people can fix the misinformation on social media which could be undermining people's political systems. Walter Quattrociocchi, a computational social scientist at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca Italy, is one of a growing number of researchers concerned about this trend. He and his team have spent the last few years trawling through data from sites like Facebook. In particular, Quattrociocchi has explored how social networks can give rise to echo chambers--spaces in which groups of individuals share stories that reinforce their world view, and rarely get to see anything that challenges their beliefs. This phenomenon is often blamed on the algorithms used by social media sites to filter their newsfeeds.