Misinformation and Biases Affect Social Media, Intentionally and Accidentally - Social Science Space

Misinformation and Biases Affect Social Media, Intentionally and Accidentally

Information on social media can be misleading because of biases in three places – the brain, society and algorithms. Scholars are developing ways to identify and display the effects of these biases.

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