The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment

H Allcott, M Gentzkow, W Mason… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
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 economics of social media

G Aridor, R Jiménez-Durán, R Levy, L Song - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We review the burgeoning literature on the economics of social media, which has become
ubiquitous in the modern economy and fundamentally changed how people interact. We first …

Intergroup ethnocentrism and social media: evidence from three Western democracies

S Gelovani, Y Theocharis… - Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mass media have long been known to be deeply linked to ethnocentrism and its
consequences. Attitudes towards ethnic outgroups are shaped by news agendas, framing …