Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse,,–and
their influence on social dynamics,,,–, especially in the context of toxicity,–. Here, to better …

Social media is often criticized for amplifying toxic discourse and discouraging constructive
conversations. But designing social media platforms to promote better conversations is …

Digital media is ubiquitous in adolescence and young adulthood. These are key
developmental periods when people explore who they are and who they want to become …

Mounting evidence indicates that the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that rank our social
media feeds bear nontrivial responsibility for amplifying partisan animosity: negative …

Low uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine in the US has been widely attributed to social media
misinformation. To evaluate this claim, we introduce a framework combining lab experiments …

We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and
behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users to …

The controversy over online misinformation and social media has opened a gap between
public discourse and scientific research. Public intellectuals and journalists frequently make …

Influence of Facebook algorithms on political polarization tested Skip to main content Thank
you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To …

In the spring of 2020, pressed by internal research staff and with support from the highest
levels of the company, Facebook (now Meta) began a collaboration with outside academics …

How has mobile internet affected political polarization in the United States? Using Gallup
Daily Poll data covering 1,765,114 individuals in 31,499 ZIP codes between 2008 and 2017 …