The Rules of Contagion
news event. In this situation, almost all of the activity comes after the initial peak. The third type of popularity occurs when ...
exposures needed for an idea to catch on. However, such ideas may then struggle to break out and spread more widely.[70] Accordi ...
success based on a simple performance metric creates a feedback loop: people start chasing the metric rather than the underlying ...
performing such actions, it’s much easier to get them to act. ‘It’s a light touch nudge for an easy to accomplish, low-cost beha ...
its ad provider. The provider then shows this information to a group of automated traders acting on behalf of advertisers. After ...
in use, this would suggest Google value our search activity at about $12 per device.[84] Given that our attention is so valuable ...
removing the distraction of having to change page. Unlimited content is now common on most social media feeds; since 2015, YouTu ...
censorship. They created new accounts, posted different types of content and tracked what got removed. As they pieced together t ...
later said.[95] Facebook eventually removed this ability to gather friendship data. Davidsen claimed that, because the Republica ...
accounts has come under scrutiny in recent years. In 2016, two votes shook the Western world: in June, Britain voted to leave th ...
Other researchers have reached a similar conclusion about the scale of false news sources in 2016. Brendan Nyhan and his colleag ...
It’s not just bots that use this targeting strategy. Following the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Park ...
lunchtime show. More coverage would follow. I’d end up reaching an audience of millions, all from that one initial story. My exp ...
essentially free. In some cases, popular false articles can even make money by bringing in advertising revenue. Then there’s the ...
In the past decade or so, a handful of online communities have been particularly successful at getting their messages picked up. ...
on Twitter. It had then spent time evolving on Reddit forums, becoming catchier in the process, before spreading more widely.[11 ...
Prompt corrections might not stop an outbreak, but they can slow it down. Researchers at Facebook have found that if users are q ...
and linked to his manifesto. Worryingly, this information caught on: the stories that were widely shared on Facebook were far mo ...
though, proposed solutions to harmful information are often one- dimensional, with suggestions that we need to do more of someth ...
transmission was happening, or which infection came from which source. Contrast this with the rise of social media, and manipula ...
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