ASSET Seminar: “Fake News, Echo Chambers, and Algorithms: A Data Science Perspective”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
Abstract: American democracy has been undermined by an “infodemic” of fake news, coupled with the widespread segregation of consumers into ideologically homogenous echo chambers by inscrutable algorithms deployed by rapacious social media platforms—or so we are told. In this talk, I will critically examine claims of this sort—made frequently by politicians, journalists, and public intellectuals—summarizing […]